Interesting Links for 14-11-2011
- Lord of the Rings: an allegory of the PhD?
(tags: phd lotr funny academia ) - Drug Shows Promise in Fighting Obesity - knocks 11% off of body weight in 4 weeks, improved insulin processing
(tags: insulin weight fat ) - Android Face Unlock feature will unlock when it sees a photo of your face.
(tags: android mobile security faces video ) - How Google gives away its services to make more money.
(tags: google adwords marketing business advertising ) - UK law change means that credit unions can properly compete with banks. I hope they spread.
(tags: banking uk ) - Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements. Nice visualisation
(tags: visualization supplements science infographics food nutrition ) - Smog-eating material breaking into the big time
(tags: titanium_dioxide smog chemistry environment ) - What writers can learn from First Person Shooter games.
(tags: writing scifi JohnScalzi games fps ) - A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain (hint: you are also all of your senses)
(tags: cognition brain psychology embodied_cognition mind consciousness neuroscience philosophy ) - Now that's _got_ to hurt.
(tags: accident funny video ) - Building a park _underneath_ New York.
(tags: terraforming newyork park ) - Without consent: how drugs companies exploit Indian 'guinea pigs'.
(tags: pharmaceuticals india research ) - Remembrance Sunday and Germans
(tags: germany war europe media uk tabloid bigotry ) - Move over, Frank Miller: or why the Occupy Wall Street kids are better than #$%! Spartans
(tags: FrankMiller occupy sparta 300 DavidBrin )
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