Interesting Links for 22-03-2014

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• The problem with “We are all Oxford"
  When people say they've experienced racism, it's not good to dismiss it with "But we're trying really hard!" or "But these other people haven't experienced that!"
  (tags: fail racism Oxford university culture comment Interesting )
• PHD Comics: Cosmic Inflation Explained
  A rather good visual explanation of stuff to do with Cosmic inflation and gravitational waves
  (tags: Awesome science Interesting the-dawn-of-time webcomics clever )
• “‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the ‘Women, Cattle and Slaves’ Narrative” by Kameron Hurley — A Dribble of Ink
  'I’m going to tell you a story about llamas. It will be like every other story you’ve ever heard about llamas: how they are covered in fine scales; how they eat their young if not raised properly; and how, at the end of their lives, they hurl themselves – lemming-like - over cliffs to drown in the surging sea. They are, at heart, sea creatures, birthed from the sea, married to it like the fishing people who make their livelihood there.'
  (tags: Interesting feminism gender sexism women War military a-rather-well-put-way-of-saying-that-hard-to-define-thing history culture )