Links roundup 6-19 February 2013

Jack held his breath, and then was gone: I'm pretty sure I had a narrow miss with hypoxic blackout as a young girl, after trying to swim underwater for as long as I could. In my case, I was lucky - I had a sudden, raging, lengthy episode of tachycardia, which I think must have saved my oxygen-starved brain from blacking out. Neither children nor adults should try to hold their breath underwater for long periods. It can kill.

Doctors in plea over cutbacks to hospital funding: "The Australian Medical Association's annual public hospitals report card showed nationally the number of hospital beds per capita had not grown, and the capacity of hospitals to move patients from emergency departments to wards or to perform elective surgeries had not improved." Can someone explain to me why Australia's hospitals aren't swimming in money? What are we spending it on that's more important? (Oh yeah, that's right.)

Women and children not first, as it turns out: Chivalry on Sinking Ships Only a Myth, Researchers Find. That's that old chestnut roasted, thank heavens.

Good news from the US: Teen Birth Rates Plunge To Record Low As Adolescents Now Have Better Access To Birth Control

Not so good news: Former sex trafficking victim shines light on dark underworld of Super Bowl

Tick male or female - where's the other box?: on accommodating intersex people on official forms.

The Meat Industry Now Consumes Four-Fifths of All Antibiotics (US) / Superbug threat on the rise through farm animals (Aus): one of a number of reasons dedicated carnivores may want to try organic meat, or having a weekly vegetarian meal.

outsdr's piece on Dating Myself is a riot. (And so is Mindhack's exasperated response to the Daily MFail. At least no mutant three-lobe killer rapists have answered your personals, Tim.)