Quickies
Quickies: Marriage equality, Facebook safety, lithium, and Jurassic Park
- Supreme Court finds nationwide right to marry – Eeeeeeeee!
- Women, LGBT people least safe on Facebook despite “real name” policy – “And things are turning more explosive, as stories emerge that Facebook has been changing its users’ names without their consent — and the company isn’t allowing them to remove their real names from their accounts.”
- I don’t believe in god, but I do believe in lithium – “The use of lithium as a therapy for mental illness goes back to at least Greek and Roman times, when people soaked in alkali-rich mineral springs to soothe both “melancholia” and “mania.””
- Jurassic Park is 100 times more feminist than Jurassic World – From Mrmisconception.
- Cute Animal Friday! Disabled orca Stumpy has always relied on the kindness of stranger orcas, from Courtney. And a teeny tiny baby pygmy slow loris.
The decision came down?
How has tumblr not exploded yet?
BTW – Yay!
Hurray, Anthony Kennedy! (Never thought I would say that.)
We have to give a little hand to Roberts too, for leading the cause to uphold government funding of
Obamacarethe ACA.On Facebook, what about Indians? I know a Rustywire, a Bigtoe, a Running Wolf…
I’ve been reading the opinions on the Supreme Court case. Did anyone else catch the dog whistle from Roberts on ‘people of faith’?
But still, wedding cake, anyone?
In terms of the magic of Lithium, the British Journal Psychiatry did a study in 2009 showing that even a small amount of lithium can reduce the rate of suicide amongst the population.
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/194/5/464