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Jan. 16th, 2012 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateRandom stuff from the twitter people:
Grains of sand, magnified until they look like tumble-polished jewels
How Doctors die; an essay worth reading about the pitfalls of modern medicine. My father has an anecdote about reconsidering the Hypocratic Oath: is it really consistent with a promise to do no harm if you perform a procedure that has a small chance of prolonging life and a near certainty of misery in the mean time? This is another take on the same problem.
Men and parenting from before "work" moved outside the home.
Irritating yoga tropes
And something from a while ago (I can't remember if I posted it before, but it was still hanging around in my temporary links folder) from somebody called Justine Musk about being female and ambitious: the art of being an ambitious female (in the corporate sense), and The art of rocking out your identity crisis so you can go on to rule the world... which is talking about the sorts of things that make me think there's something to this 21st century feminism thing after all. (Ok, there is really, but I never wanted to be a Corporate Whatever, and I still have trouble sticking the idea that people still have trouble with this stuff.)
I had some thoughts on revising, but they may have got swallowed by the weekend with the in-laws. We shall see.
Grains of sand, magnified until they look like tumble-polished jewels
How Doctors die; an essay worth reading about the pitfalls of modern medicine. My father has an anecdote about reconsidering the Hypocratic Oath: is it really consistent with a promise to do no harm if you perform a procedure that has a small chance of prolonging life and a near certainty of misery in the mean time? This is another take on the same problem.
Men and parenting from before "work" moved outside the home.
Irritating yoga tropes
And something from a while ago (I can't remember if I posted it before, but it was still hanging around in my temporary links folder) from somebody called Justine Musk about being female and ambitious: the art of being an ambitious female (in the corporate sense), and The art of rocking out your identity crisis so you can go on to rule the world... which is talking about the sorts of things that make me think there's something to this 21st century feminism thing after all. (Ok, there is really, but I never wanted to be a Corporate Whatever, and I still have trouble sticking the idea that people still have trouble with this stuff.)
I had some thoughts on revising, but they may have got swallowed by the weekend with the in-laws. We shall see.
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Date: 2012-01-17 03:30 am (UTC)And that essay on how doctors die is really eye-opening.
Thanks for the links.
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Date: 2012-01-17 01:58 pm (UTC)I'm a little skeptical that those are average grains of sand (just from the colors), but really, having had someone else point this out it makes complete sense-- tumble polishing for bigger rocks is essentially putting them in with sand & water and letting them wash about for a while. So, why wouldn't grains of sand look like that? :)
And yeah-- there are so many things we just don't think through all the way as a society.
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Date: 2012-01-17 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-01-17 01:52 pm (UTC)