Currently Reading
Why I am reading those books: 1 / 2 / 3.
Recommended Books
Siren Watcher's Recommended Books
- Animal Farm by George Orwell Fiction. Dystopian.
- Authoritarian Sociopathy: Toward a Renegade Psychological Experiment by Davi Barker Non-Fiction. Psychology.
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Fiction.
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Fiction.
- The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk Fiction.
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Fiction. Spirituality.
- Sexuality of Men: 3rd German Men’s Health Report by Foundation of Men’s Health Non-Fiction. Sexology.
- Illumination by Terry McGarry Fiction.
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Fiction. Dystopian.
- 1984 by George Orwell Fiction. Dystopian.
- … And Then There Were None by Eric Frank Russell Fiction. Dystopian. Free short audiobook: https://www.corbettreport.com/flnwo41/
Recently Read Articles
Siren Watcher’s Recently Read Articles
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- The Sengoku Period in Japanese History
- First Sino-Japanese War
- Senkaku Islands dispute
- PER2 – Circadian Rhythms
- United States incarceration rate
- 42 Foods that make you dream
- Signal sees surge in new signups after boost from Elon Musk and WhatsApp controversy
- Bush tucker
- 2,000 Atoms Exist in Two Places at Once in Unprecedented Quantum Experiment
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- French court slaps down Google’s appeal against $57M GDPR fine
- Cognitive Dissonance
- List of Average IQs Per Occupation
- Pornography laws by region
- Why Some of Us Seek Dominant Partners "The results revealed that sensation-seekers of both genders were especially likely to prefer a dominant partner. In particular, boredom susceptibility and disinhibition were correlated with a preference for dominant partners—while thrill-seeking was not. This suggests that those who are easily bored and engage in impulsive behaviors may choose more dominant romantic partners. Such partners may provide the excitement that keeps them stimulated."
- Vaccine Development, Testing, and Regulation "Vaccine development is a long, complex process, often lasting 10-15 years and involving a combination of public and private involvement."
- How long do vaccines last? The surprising answers may help protect people longer "In a 2018 review of 11 recent studies on the durability of influenza vaccines, researchers concluded that effectiveness can vanish as soon as 90 days after vaccination. The article, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, further noted that 20% of Americans received their flu vaccines for a given season by the end of September—which means the vaccine may do nothing come peak flu spread in January and February... By the 2000s, the country had only a few hundred cases per year. But then in 2006, mumps surged on college campuses in the Midwest, with 6500 cases tallied before the year's end. Nearly 85% of the college-age people who became ill had received the recommended two doses of the mumps vaccine. Despite wide use of the vaccine, mumps outbreaks continue in the United States on college campuses and in tightly knit religious communities..." Implies the vaccine itself loses effectiveness, because a new mumps strain that has genetically "escaped" should strike other age groups just as often. In a dozen other studies of mumps outbreaks around the world, researchers have also found signs of waning protection.
- (DNA Learning Analogy in Comments) Why did my hair change from blonde as a child to brunette in my teens? "DNA is the recipe in a cookbook that can't leave your Grandma's house (nucleus). You want it so you copy (transcribe) the instructions onto a post-it to take home with you (mRNA). It's still just a code; you can't eat the post-it, and it looks slightly different than the format in the actual cookbook but contains the same information. You then take this into your kitchen (the ribosome) and then as the cook (tRNA) you read (or translate) the words and then assemble the ingredients. So you know that egg means those oval things in the fridge just like tRNA knows that AUG (we call the words codons) means the amino acid methionine. Assemble the right ingredients and you have your food (chocolate cake!) or protein (red hair)."
- Banned in 160 Nations, Why is Ractopamine in U.S. Pork? "It belongs to a class of drugs, beta-agonists, that were developed to treat asthma and only adapted for animal use when they were shown to boost growth rates. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved ractopamine for use on pigs after just one human health study — an evaluation of six young, healthy men, one of whom dropped out because his heart began racing and pounding abnormally. Three years later, the FDA sent ractopamine's sponsor a 14-page letter, accusing the company of withholding information about the drug's "adverse animal drug experiences" and "safety and effectiveness." Shortly thereafter, the FDA required drug manufacturers to add this warning label: "Ractopamine may increase the number of injured and/or fatigued pigs during marketing. Not for use in breeding swine."... The FDA has linked ractopamine to nearly a quarter-million reported adverse events in pigs (more than half of those pigs were sickened or killed) — more than any other animal drug. These pigs became lame or unable to stand, started trembling, or suffered a host of other ailments. In particular, ractopamine causes pigs to collapse and become "downers," that is, animals too sick or injured to walk, and then often dragged into the slaughterhouse."
- YouTube Manipulated ‘Federal Reserve’ Search Results in Response to MSNBC Host’s Complaint "... the term “Federal Reserve” has also been on the blacklist since September of last year – and it’s all because someone at Google read a series of Chris Hayes tweets... According to the source, an employee at the company drew attention to Hayes’ tweets a day after the MSNBC host posted them. On the same day, the source says Google’s “youtube_controversial_query_blacklist” file was edited to include the term “Federal Reserve.”... previously reported on Google’s decision to add the terms “abortion” and “abortions” to the same YouTube search blacklist." I actually know this is true because I watched the youtuber prior to the video being blacklisted. I had already seen the video and knew it was first on the results before google's edit because it was something I'd shared a few times to people. Still shocked that the US govt sided with youtube that they were a 'Forum' when clearly editing search results means you are not by definition a Public Forum under law... sigh. A Forum being like a place where all peoples voices can be heard and not filtered, like people debating philosophy in a public square in Greece - like in Monty Python.
- Why Interacting with a Woman Can Leave Men “Cognitively Impaired” "... study demonstrated that after a short interaction with an attractive woman, men experienced a decline in mental performance. A more recent study suggests that this cognitive impairment takes hold even when men simply anticipate interacting with a woman who they know very little about... The results may also have to do with social expectations. Our society may place more pressure on men to impress women during social interactions." I've been self-observing this phenomena for years. Actually read about it later on, in a psychology textbook. It is frustrating for me as a female who somewhat ranks men based on their intellectual stamina, learning it made me give men more time and not judge as harshly.
- List of private spaceflight companies
- Australian managing partner of McKinsey regrets consultancy’s role during opioid epidemic
- Surging prescriptions, deaths: Australia faces opioid crisis
- 6 Private Companies That Could Launch Humans Into Space
- Health > Life expectancy Stats: compare key data
- Australia plotted by every mapped stream and river… all 1.3 million of them
- Australian men on top when it comes to life expectancy
- How to Enable Dark Theme for Firefox
- Submarine (Internet) Cable Map
- SEPA Countries List 2020
- United Arab Emirates Coins Collection (1c, 5c, 10c, 25c).
- Euro Coins Collection (€2)
- Chinese Coins Collection (1 fen, 2 fen, 5 fen, 5 Jiao (emblem))
- British Coins Collection (2p, 25p)
- Hong Kong Coins Collection ($10)
- Australian Coins Collection (1c, 2c)
- Moroccan Coins Collection (10c, 20c, 50c (1/2))
- 4 Revelations About Women and Porn
- I’m A Woman Who’s Seriously Attracted To Feminine Men
- Webster’s Third New International Dictionary – Reception and criticisms Dictionary. Words.
- Top 10 Alternative Media Outlets to Follow in 2020 News.
- U.S. Chemical Corporation DuPont Helped Nazi Germany Because of Ideology, Israeli Researcher Says War. America. Nazi.
- Covid has exposed America as a failed state Economics. Policy. Supply chains.
- Trespassing section of FindLaw’s Real Estate Center Law. USA.
- Digital contract rules Law. Europe. Refunds.
- Repair, replace, refund Law. Australia. Refunds.
- Bitcoin Meets Banking As U.S. Bank Regulator Permits Cryptocurrency Custody Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency. Banking.
- Countries Where Cryptocurrency is Legal (2020) Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency. Law.
- Top 5 Countries Where Cryptocurrencies Are Popular Economics. Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency.
- Everyone Looks Terrible in the Grim China-Australia Twitter War Australia. China. War.
- Oh Noes! Right Wing Site Parler Has A Porn Problem Social Media. Porn. Guidelines.
- Parler, MeWe, Gab gain momentum as conservative social media alternatives in post-Trump age Social Media
- Parler wants to be the ‘free speech’ alternative to Twitter Social Media.
- What’s the Deal With Parler? Social Media.
- Dominance hierarchy Psychology. Relationships.
- Protocol Hosting Google reCAPTCHA Competitor Expands to Polkadot Technology. Captcha.
- Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be ‘colossally stupid’ Vaccines. Coronavirus. Health.
- Laws Protect Food Donors Food. Law. Waste.
- Good Samaritan Act Provides Liability Protection For Food Donations Food. Law. Waste.
- Brain Scientists Trace Rat Ticklishness To Play Behavior Science. Animals. Giggle.