Interesting Links for 25-10-2011
Oct. 25th, 2011 01:00 pm- On Parenthood. A touching and funny piece on the changes children bring.
- Tony Blair is now doing Public Relations work for repressive regimes
- Man demoted for having non-job-related opinions on Facebook.
- Zimbabwe's PM Morgan Tsvangirai in gay rights U-turn
- Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing. Nice cast.
- Emotional experiences are lessened by talking about them, utilitarian ones are increased.
- Exposure to chemical BPA before birth linked to behavioral, emotional difficulties in girls
- More time outdoors may reduce kids' risk for nearsightedness
- Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
- How Valve experiments with the economics of video games - GeekWire
"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates." - FBI Changes Rape Definition
- The Hobbit as JRR Tolkien imagined it – in pictures
- Which? magazine to test value of degrees
- “We’re a culture, not a costume." - an eye-catching anti-racism campaign
- There are 10cm wide single-celled organisms living 6 miles down under the sea.
- Financial incentives for wave and tidal energy schemes to double, wind,biomass to drop by 10%
- American-style sugar daddy parties are coming to UK. I had never heard of this.