Interesting Links for 20-07-2012
- Lack of evidence that popular sports products work (Including Puma, Lucozade, and amino acid supplements)
(tags: sports science EpicFail fraud ) - Disability and sexuality: everything you think you know is wrong
(tags: sexuality sex disability ) - Is Britain behaving better? (Crime at lowest level for 37 years, antisocial behaviour also down)
(tags: uk crime behaviour ) - Loch Lomond and Trossachs hydroelectric scheme opened
(tags: electricity power hydroelectric scotland ) - Where Tetris blocks really come from
(tags: games tetris viaPhilmoPhlegm ) - Oh Mr Darcy! Pride and Prejudice among classic novels to receive erotic makeover
(tags: prideandprejudice novel erotica sex funny ) - There's a consultation on assisted dying - you can fill it out here.
(tags: viaLuckyLove consultation uk death life euthenasia ) - Sex offenders to take polygraph tests - despite polygraphs being rubbish.
(tags: EpicFail science lies ) - Live in Edinburgh and go drinking with friends in Glasgow? Then you can't get the train home afterwards.
(tags: scotland rail wtf UnintendedConsequences ) - Finally, a UK mains plug you can put in your pocket.
(tags: uk electricity plugs ) - Kinder Eggs are illegal in the US - and carry a $2,500 fine.
(tags: usa food toys wtf viaFanf ) - Why Pot Is Illegal Everywhere in the World
(tags: marijuana drugs viaFanf ) - Why iPhone pricing and market share in the US is so different to everywhere else.
(tags: usa iphone business phones ) - Yahoo! by Mayer (High-ranking Googler taking over at Yahoo)
(tags: yahoo google funny ) - Author Denise Mina predicts that ebooks will fundamentally change everything about books and publishing.
(tags: ebooks writing publishing ) - Highland Council challenged on prayers at meetings
(tags: prayer religion scotland ) - In utero exposure to diesel exhaust a possible risk factor for obesity
(tags: obesity weight health pollution ) - We have five times as much oil and coal and gas on the books as climate scientists think is safe to burn.
(tags: globalwarming climatechange coal gas )
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