links for 24 February 2010

• Britain To Stop Funding For Homeopathy

23 February 2010 – … didn’t see that coming. Then again, I live in California. (via Clay)

• Rape Analogy: The “Walking in a Bad Neighborhood” Theory

23 February 2010 – Brilliant article overall, but especially for this: “The behaviors associated with femininity occupy a strange space in our culture. While they are obsessively reinforced as ‘normal’ behaviors for women, they simultaneously work to situate women as abnormal, different, ‘other.’” (via ShannonK)

• How Seattle Commutes

23 February 2010 – Terrific graphic of major cities’ commuting habits. (via Darby)

• I’m Sorry

23 February 2010 – I love this. (via striatic)

• Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?

23 February 2010