Delicious LiveJournal Links for 1-27-2010

[andrewducker]

• Scientists recreate Maxwell's Demon
  Clarke's Third Law applies, obviously
  (tags: science TheFuture)
• This is why I was never any good at flirting
  (tags: comic funny flirting)
• Pure CSS 3D Coke Can
  Damn, that's impressive!
  (tags: 3d coke design programming html css)
• FT Alphaville » The bank problem in a single chart
• Whole Foods Offers Employee Discount Based On BMI
  And also campaigns against healthcare reform.
  (tags: health usa EpicFail)
• Blu-ray Maker Re-Boxes $500 Player, Charges $3,500
  Would you like some oxygen free cables to go with that?
  (tags: hardware marketing scam technology EpicFail)
• Teacher Anxieties May Subtract From Girlsâ™ Math Scores
  (tags: mathematics gender society psychology teaching)
• How the brain encodes memories at a cellular level
  (tags: brain science memory neuroscience psychology biology)
• German court finds parent liable for child's file-sharing
  (tags: law germany filesharing)
• Use Google Reader to follow changes to any website
  (tags: google rss)
• UK more liberal on homosexuality, says survey. Still 33% bigoted though.
  Some 36% thought homosexual acts were "always" or "mostly" wrong, down from 62% when the British Social Attitudes survey was first carried out, in 1983.
  (tags: gay politics uk society)

Comments

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

Much of the NHS is incredibly inefficient and run in very old-fashioned ways. The culture amongst many staff is one of resistance to advancement, efficiency improvements or change in general. Reforming that culture is pretty much impossible, not least due to resistance from staff and/or unions to change. Making hospitals compete financially, the argument goes, is pretty much the only way that you can force that change to take place.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

It confuses patients, and actually there was research that showed passing choice over to the patient slows the whole process down significantly and wastes resources.

And competition is inherently wasteful anyway.