"Then sleep, dear, sleep / And not a sorrow / Hang any tear on your eyelashes"

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Some vaguely sociology links. Or at least dealing with humans. Something like that.

The standard story about the murder of Kitty Genovese is wildly inaccurate: bystanders did intervene. The supposed 38 witnesses is inflated: of the 33 people who heard something at some point, the bulk had no clear understanding of what was going on. (via sovay)

When you compare siblings where one is was breast-fed and another was not -- in otherwords automatically control for environment -- you find that the benefits of breast-feeding largely disappear. (via?)

A profile of burrnesha, a class of Albanian transmen that is dying out because of cultural changes. It tries to be trans-respectful, but stumbles in parts. (via)

---L.

Subject quote from "Dirge" from Death's Jest Book, Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

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I recently saw a review of a new book about the Genovese case (probably on LJ or linked from LJ). It said the high figure of witnesses came from a policeman in a early, casual interview. The book author interviewed the witnesses and found that hardly any of them knew something serious was going on, and those few had taken serious action.

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That may have been the linked article, or another review of the same book.

---L.