Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-10-2009

[andrewducker]

• Thin-Film Solar Startup Debuts With $4 Billion in Contracts
  And has apparently achieved $1/watt, which is astounding.
  (tags: TheFuture solarpower electricity)
• OC Assemblyman In Bed With Lobbyist . . . No, Literally In Bed
  ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS check that the microphone you are wearing is turned off. Or just don't tell people about your affair while wearing a microphone - that works too...
  (tags: politics EpicFail)
• Why Parents May Cause Gender Differences in Kids
  Reasonably convincing - but, as ever, I'm sure it's only part of the story.
  (tags: gender children kids parenting research)
• Children's drawings redone by artists
  Cute factor overloaded!
  (tags: art illustration children drawing)
• Brain Eater Syndrome
  Why Electrical Engineers are particularly susceptible.
  (tags: EpicFail engineering)

Comments

[andrewducker]

There's also plenty of perfectly clear data I've seen that show that hormones affect general behaviour. Of course, there are less of these hormones in children than there are in teenagers, and the expression of the general changes are down to culture/nurture, but they definitely seem to be there.