Helmets, flashing lights, and soy

[da]

Two pieces of interesting bike research, and one nutjob:

Seen via a comment elsewhere via signsoflife: http://community.livejournal.com/bikes/182986.html points to research showing that flashing bike lights may draw people's eyes to them, causing car drivers to steer involuntarily into them. What a pain. Googling "the moth effect" suggests there's evidence that it affects different people differently, and I'm on the fence about switching my tail-light to solid-red instead of flashing. Needs more research.

Another bike-related bit, a researcher at the University of Bath has found that bicyclists who wear helmets are crowded by cars, more so than bare-headed bicyclists. That's what we get for looking more competent.

Speaking of competence, via The Journal of Improbable Research, "proof" that soy is making kids gay. I can't follow his leap from isoflavones to super-strong estrogen, but maybe that's what makes him a NUTJOB.

Comments

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know about that. I mean, I am so butch and everything that I am, in fact, usually identified by people as straight..............

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Aha, the truth comes out! You'll pretend to be straight so they don't force-feed you the soy-burgers and so on?... Hm.

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

Who's pretending? It's not like you've ever seen me in a dress or something..... ;-)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I believe I even have the photos to prove it.

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

OBVIOUSLY Photoshopped.............