Posts by Chris Waugh
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Taking photos with a cardboard cutout toy camera and a belly dancing skirt on her head.
Merry Christmas!
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Merry Christmas, Russell.
Merry Christmas everybody here.
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Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Excellent end-of-year Media3, Russell.
Yes. And Pam Corkery's comparison of media coverage of National's "brighter future" with media coverage of doomsday was brilliant. And her point about media, ummm... "corpse pron"?.... I dunno about the specific NZ situation, but it's something I've seen more widely, and I couldn't agree more.
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to David Hood,
Before the rain this afternoon, it was a bit of a grey day today.
First Church?
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Congratulations kebabette, superb photo.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I was trying to have a conversation about masculinity.
And I've really appreciated your posts on the subject. You've provided much food for thought.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to David Hood,
This study is probably what QI were drawing from.
Thanks for the link, but gender stereotype alert:
This, according to Rex Jung, a UNM neuropsychologist and co-author of the study, may help to explain why men tend to excel in tasks requiring more local processing (like mathematics), while women tend to excel at integrating and assimilating information from distributed gray-matter regions in the brain, such as required for language facility.
Can't comment on the actual neuroscience that may have been done, but that passage has major alarm bells ringing.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lilith __,
I'm pretty sure the male-brain/female-brain thing is a myth. I can't Google it right now but I have read that idea being roundly debunked.
This might help - but then again, it is a linguist's take on things, so hardly more expert on neuroscience than me. Still, googling "language log louann brizendine" turns up a lot of posts on Language Log which seem to all take the same line. And I think you can trust linguists when they say Brizendine's claim and the common myth that women talk more than men is a load of old cobbler's.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Megan Wegan,
But I don’t think that we serve anyone well when we talk about what men have “lost” to others. Shouldn’t we talk about what they have to gain?
Yes, absolutely.
And there is much more in your comment that has got me thinking, but it's too early in the morning.
