Interesting Links for 10-08-2012
- How does the Corby by-election change the UK's electoral mathematics?
(tags: elections coalition uk ) - 1300 extreme porn convictions in the last year. Rather more than the original estimate of _30_
(tags: viaCipherGoth porn uk law freespeech ) - Spotify, Pandora, Streaming Music Make Up 25 Percent of Warner Digital's revenue
(tags: music spotify business ) - Paying Prisoners £3 an hour - a solution.
(tags: prison pay ) - Natural birth -- but not C-section -- triggers brain-boosting proteins (in mice)
(tags: birth brains memory children ) - Deep-fried Mars Bar inventors seek EU protected status
(tags: eu omnomnomnom scotland food ) - How not to be a sex creep.
(tags: socialisation sex ) - How to deal with there being a sex creep in your social circle
(tags: culture relationships socialisation sex ) - Change Your Passwords (Again): Battle.net Breached
(tags: security OhForFucksSake ) - Student scores improve if teachers given incentives upfront
Shows that teachers can have a strong effect and incentives could be used better in general.
(tags: ) - Brain in a dish flies jet plan simulator. (In 2004. Presumably nowadays they use them to predict the stock exchange)
(tags: brains technology thefuture ) - Psychotherapy is effective but underutilized
(tags: psychology therapy mental_health ) - Drinking at work makes you more creative (but less able to focus)
(tags: creativity alcohol productivity work )
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