I share a lot of links on Twitter and Facebook that I don’t blog about because I don’t have much to add. The reading list is a periodic feature where I share those links with my blog audience too. Of course, you’re still welcome to follow me on Twitter.

Around FtB

• Survey on Gender Segregation at Universities–“One Law for All, in conjunction with Southall Black Sisters and Fitnah, is conducting a survey as part of a research project investigating the nature and impact of segregation, specifically gender segregation, at universities in the United Kingdom.”
• Religion vs. Mental Illness, A Bit More Concisely This Time–“Equating religion with mental illness is harmful for a number of reasons.”
• Edinburgh University Students Association rejects secularism–“Edinburgh University Students Association last night failed to endorse a motion to ensure equality for students of all beliefs, whether religious or not.”
• Adoption: Legality and Journalistic Hype–“So, there’s this article in The New Republic. Meet the New Anti-Adoption Movement: The surprising next frontier in reproductive justice. And I, being the sort who dutifully reads any instance of Someone Wrong On The Internet that crosses my field of vision, clicked.”
• The Drunken Founding Fathers–“Stanton Peele reminds us that the founding fathers were known to drink. A lot. I mean a whole lot.”

The Wider Web

• I Didn’t Want To Lean Out–“I didn’t make that decision lightly. I’ve loved chemistry since middle school. I saw the way it made the world fit together and it was beautiful.”
• New “Rescue a Reef” citizen science project focuses on coral restoration. You can help!–“Coral reefs provide critical habitat to countless unique species of animals and plants. However, many reefs are in trouble, being hammered by climate change, destructive fishing techniques, pollution, disease, and other threats.”
• Reddit Censors Big Story About Government Manipulation and Disruption of the Internet–“The moderators at the giant r/news reddit (with over 2 million subscribed readers) repeatedly killed the Greenwald/Snowden story on government manipulation and disruption of the Internet … widely acknowledged to be one of the most important stories ever leaked by Snowden.”
• About That Good Art Article at NPR…–“So, there’s an NPR article making the rounds right now. It purports to be about whether the quality of art is primarily responsible for the popularity of art.”
• Apex Magazine is creating An online SF, Fantasy, and Horror zine–“Our mandate has always been to bring you, the reader, works full of marrow and passion, and stories where secret places and dreams are put on display.”
• Sick Burrrrrrrn–“Nice Batman t-shirt. I bet you don’t even read the comics.”
• SPECIAL REPORT | Vegas woman’s fight for gender recognition–“A Las Vegas woman’s fight against the federal government has led to a national policy change that affects people across the country.”
• ‘Up Off The Mat’ – a screenplay–“I decided to lend my considerable writing talents to the creation of a film that finally, at long last, speaks to the suffering that white folks have to go through in our post-racial hellscape.”
• Minn. state budget surplus rises to $1.23 billion for 2014, 2015 fiscal years–“State finance officials say Minnesota has a $1.2 billion projected budget surplus in the current two-year budget cycle. That’s a $408 million increase over the last forecast released in December.”
• Anachrocon Reorganizes Amid Controversy Surrounding Chairman–“The staffer, who asked not to be named publically but was interviewed at length by a member of the Steampunk Chronicle staff, states that William MacLeod made repeated offers of sex over the weekend and fondled her at the most recent convention.”
• No, I Will Not Take the Men’s Rights Movement Seriously–“It seems like there’s been a small uptick in mainstream coverage of the “manosphere” lately—that loose web of pick-up artists, men’s rights activists, “men going their own way,” and other intellectually vacuous “movements” that dot the internet—and while I can’t say I’m surprised (it is amusing to gawk at, for a moment, when you first become aware of its bewildering existence), I do wish we would let it drop now that we’ve all had a grimace and a laugh.”
• A number of points re: Ross and Loncon–“I’ll start by saying that I’m pleased that he has stepped down. I hope Loncon will take this opportunity to highlight somebody in UK fandom who might bring a new voice to the table.”