Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-9-2009

[andrewducker]

• when PhDs get frustrated
  The site in general is worth wandering through.
  (tags: funny science physics energy environment)
• Trying to Live on 500K in New York City
  Oh how my heart bleeds for them.
  (tags: usa money newyork)
• Ceiling Height Can Affect How A Person Thinks, Feels And Acts
  âœWhen a person is in a space with a 10-foot ceiling, they will tend to think more freely, more abstractly,â said Meyers-Levy. âœThey might process more abstract connections between objects in a room, whereas a person in a room with an 8-foot ceiling will be more likely to focus on specifics.â
  (tags: psychology environment)
• The "Italians" on wildcat strikes
  (tags: UK Europe globalization italy)
• Doctor loses license in live birth abortion case
  Women goes for very late abortion, gives birth, and then the medical staff bag the _still breathing_ baby in front of her. Apparently she wasn't happy.
  (tags: usa news murder abortion)
• Malaysian twins spared death row
  In a plot from the pages of a bad thriller, Malaysian identical twin brothers have escaped hanging for drug trafficking as a court failed to decide which brother was the criminal, and cleared both.
  (tags: news crime twins)

Comments

[blearyboy.livejournal.com]

I am completely dumbstruck by that abortion story. Surely that's some kind of satire? Surely that didn't really happen?

[robhu.livejournal.com]

No, this is real. There are other similar things to this that do happen. It horrifies me that society has (at it's extreme edges) now got to this stage.