Science and technology links
A cartoon offered without comment since I am a Mac user.
The mathematics of a zombie attack (pdf).
Are we sure we want to go here?
In Oz, we worry about housecats preying on the local wildlife. In Arizona …
Psychologist Dan Gilbert does a TED on happiness.
A HIV expert agrees withz the Pope on condoms. Sort of. A bit. Report finds that having sex without condoms is more likely to make folk happier.
Welcome to post-racial cyber America: An African-American man has pleaded guilty after being accused of impersonating a white supremacist in a fictitious Facebook account to make death threats against an African-American university student.
A large number of current medical treatments are of unknown effectiveness.
Texting the metabolic advantages of arm swinging.
Research suggests psychopaths have distinctive brain structures. The paper.
Texting while driving greatly increases the collision risk: The first study of drivers texting inside their vehicles shows that the risk sharply exceeds previous estimates based on laboratory research - and far surpasses the dangers of other driving distractions.
55 million years of horses.
Report suggests living alone during middle age increases chances of dementia later in life.
About satellite communications for soldiers in Afghanistan. About the effort put in by American forces to save the life of a British soldier.
Melbourne’s big ferris wheel seems to have had some design issues.
Gender of an African runner under dispute.
The Sun appears to be being a bit quiet. Comet hits Jupiter. About pride in, and the value of, the space program and space exploration.
Declines in homicide rates in Europe since the medieval period. Homicide rates in the US in the C20th: the wars on alcohol and drugs certainly appear to have killed quite a few folk. A journalist reports on what it is like to be tasered. Police willingness to use tasers: against the hysterical mother of murdered daughter, against a woman in a traffic stop (her children when then left unattened for 40 minutes).
The mathematics of a zombie attack (pdf).
Are we sure we want to go here?
In Oz, we worry about housecats preying on the local wildlife. In Arizona …
Psychologist Dan Gilbert does a TED on happiness.
A HIV expert agrees withz the Pope on condoms. Sort of. A bit. Report finds that having sex without condoms is more likely to make folk happier.
Welcome to post-racial cyber America: An African-American man has pleaded guilty after being accused of impersonating a white supremacist in a fictitious Facebook account to make death threats against an African-American university student.
A large number of current medical treatments are of unknown effectiveness.
Texting the metabolic advantages of arm swinging.
Research suggests psychopaths have distinctive brain structures. The paper.
Texting while driving greatly increases the collision risk: The first study of drivers texting inside their vehicles shows that the risk sharply exceeds previous estimates based on laboratory research - and far surpasses the dangers of other driving distractions.
55 million years of horses.
Report suggests living alone during middle age increases chances of dementia later in life.
About satellite communications for soldiers in Afghanistan. About the effort put in by American forces to save the life of a British soldier.
Melbourne’s big ferris wheel seems to have had some design issues.
Gender of an African runner under dispute.
The Sun appears to be being a bit quiet. Comet hits Jupiter. About pride in, and the value of, the space program and space exploration.
Declines in homicide rates in Europe since the medieval period. Homicide rates in the US in the C20th: the wars on alcohol and drugs certainly appear to have killed quite a few folk. A journalist reports on what it is like to be tasered. Police willingness to use tasers: against the hysterical mother of murdered daughter, against a woman in a traffic stop (her children when then left unattened for 40 minutes).