Interesting Links for 29-06-2016

[andrewducker]

AI fighter pilot wins in combat simulation (tags: ai airplanes war military ) Who governs Britain? This is the UK's new 10-party system (tags: politics europe uk ) Majority of new Labour members support deselecting MPs who undermine Jeremy Corbyn (tags: labour politics uk ) Jeremy Corbyn loses 'no confidence' vote among Labour MPs by 172 to 40

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[momentsmusicaux]

Interestingly, the history of my family is marriages between plate-throwers and silent shut-downers.

(My grandfather once sulked for over a week while on holiday when my mother was a kid, I was told. The rest of his family nicknamed him 'The Tibetan' for the duration.)

[nancylebov]

"Just one 20-ounce soda increases your risk of a heart attack by about 30 percent."

One 20-ounce soda per how often?

[cahwyguy]

I was going to save that article about sugar being more dangerous than fats, until I got to the end and saw, "In my new book, The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet, which will be released on February 25, I provide an easy, step-by-step plan to rid yourself of sugar addiction and reverse your risk of heart attacks...."

Sorry. If you're selling a book on the subject, I wonder about the bias in your findings. I've seen some other articles indicating sugar is the culprit, but I'm going to hold off shouting it to the world until I see some unbiased research confirming it. A major problem we've got in the food industry is too much bias in the results.

[agoodwinsmith]

Yes, but the study he cites is solid:
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1819573

[andrewducker]

Does writing a book on a subject automatically make someone biased?

Because that's going to put a lot of academics off of writing a book about the things they've learned.

[cahwyguy]

There's a difference between being biased, and the appearance of being biased. To use an example in the news this week: Bill Clinton sees an old friend, Loretta Lynch, and they get together for a few minutes to swap stories of the grandkids. No problem. Now I say it another way: the husband of someone under investigation by the Justice Department has a private meeting with the head of the Justice Department. Same thing as before, but an appearance is created that colors perceptions.

So, an expert writing a book on the subject ... no problem. However, that same expert ending an article on the subject with, "You can learn more by reading my book "Blarp", only 23.95 from Amazon" creates the appearance that the purpose of the article was to sell the book.

So my comment was more that the way the original article was written made me suspicious.

Remember: 90% of everything is how you say it.

[mlknchz]

An actual adult human somehow got paid to write the line "Get ready for a close encounter, bitch", in "Independence Day".

I swear to God, that 5 year-old who wrote "Axe Cop" could have come up with a better script

Tetris gets trilogy as story 'too big' to fit

[drdoug]

Nooo! Not a trilogy. It must be four movies.