April 2012
“I know that feeling really well, of feeling like a band who’s my little secret and then having them sort of get taken away from me in a way. I understand that feeling, but I would hope that our fans who have been around for a while are still happy for us and still like the music we’re writing. We’re making the same songs and doing the same things with the integrity we’ve always had.”
—Andrew Dost (AP interview 4/11/12)
Genderal Interest: Why Guys Really Hate Being Called 'Creepy'(via @Jezebel) →
jezebel.com
The newest cause célèbre for men’s right activists (MRAs) has nothing to do with divorce law, “false rape allegations”, or the dangers of “sperm-stealing” feminists.
Guys: If you don’t want to be called creepy then don’t be creepy.
Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver 'invented' at Dundee University →
bbc.co.uk
Scientists claim to have invented their own version of Doctor Who’s famous sonic screwdriver.
The Dundee University researchers have created a machine which uses ultrasound to lift and rotate a rubber disc floating in a cylinder of water.
It is said to be the first time ultrasound waves have been used to turn objects rather than simply push them.
The study could help make surgery using ultrasound techniques more precise, the physicists said.
Ultrasound waves could already be made to push objects and scientists believed they could also turn them - but the Dundee University team claims to have now proved it.
They used energy from an ultrasound array to form a beam that can both carry momentum to push away an object in its path and, by using a beam shaped like a helix or vortex, cause the object to rotate.
The results of the sonic screwdriver experiment will be published in the American Physical Society’s journal Physical Review Letters.
I need feminism because...
I shouldn’t have to fight for women’s rights. Because I shouldn’t have to explain why women’s rights need to be called human rights.
