Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-24-2009

[andrewducker]

• Scientists claim to have found language of ancient Indus civilisation
  (tags: pakistan language history)
• Mum has plastic surgery to look like her daughter
  Strangely, doesn't succeed.
  (tags: surgery youth age aging)
• Edinburgh tram spur line shelved
  That's the line from Haymarket to Granton. Shame really, it would have been good for the economy of that area.
  (tags: trams Edinburgh)
• Dreamwidth for Dummies
  In case you were wondering
  (tags: dreamwidth)
• AK-DL1
  The most expensive ethernet cable in the world.
  (tags: audio technology funny)
• A Workers' Paradise Found Off Japan's Coast
  Under Hime's system, village employees earn about a third less pay than public servants elsewhere in Japan, though they work the same hours. This has allowed the village to create more jobs: it now directly or indirectly employs a fifth of all working islanders. Most of the rest are engaged in fishing, also government-subsidized. In fact, village officials say, there are few fully private-sector jobs on the island.
  (tags: economy japan)
• Jewish legacy inscribed on genes
  Ashkenazi Jews have a higher rate of some deadly genetic diseases -- and of high IQs. Scientists Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending say that's no coincidence.
  (tags: genetics Jews intelligence brains)

Comments

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

PZ Myers has already erviewed the LA Time article. He didn't like it.

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

Why is it that audiophiles are apparently all crazy people willing to play $500 for a goddamn ethernet cable?

[andrewducker]

I'm not terribly convinced by his argument, to be honest. I'm not convinced by theirs either, to be fair. What I want is a decent study and some numbers.