Delicious LiveJournal Links for 4-21-2010

[andrewducker]

• Marriage does little for child development, study finds
  (tags: education children family marriage parenting)
• An argument against recycling plastic
  (tags: recycling environment plastic oil)
• Tax evasion costs Treasury 15 times more than benefit fraud - £15billion vs £1billion
  (tags: tax fraud uk)
• Brain training doesn't work
  Participants in all groups showed improvements on the specific tasks included in their training regimens, but a repeat of the benchmark performance tests used at the study outset showed that these benefits had not generalised, not even when the training tests and benchmark tests involved similar cognitive processes.
  (tags: brain intelligence psychology)
• Douglas Adams answers the question "What kind of Apple Mac did Arthur Dent have?"
  (tags: douglasadams fiction)