Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-5-2009

• Maths no better than in 1970s
  3000 children sit an exam from 1976, get pretty much the same results that people got in 1976. This despite massive result inflation since then...
  (tags: education mathematics UK)
• Damien Hirst in vicious feud with teenage artist over a box of pencils
  A box of pencils worth, apparently, £500,000
  (tags: art money UK crime)
• Mixing Solar with Coal to Cut Costs
  Now this is a smart idea!
  (tags: solar coal energy ecology power electricity)
• 50 things that are being killed by the internet
  8 - Telephone directories (can't remember the last time I used one) 22 - Enforceable copyright 44 - Trust in Nigerian businessmen
  (tags: internet culture technology society)
• Dog Hair is Defined by Just Three Genes!
  I was expecting...more
  (tags: dogs hair genetics)
• Research into whether women are more tentative than men
  "I found that women are more tentative than men sometimes, and men are more tentative than women sometimes," Palomares said. "It depends on the topic and whether you're communicating with someone of the same gender. Gender differences in language are not innate; theyâ™re fickle.
  (tags: language gender psychology social stereotypes)
• German boffins invent steel Velcro
  Offers adhesive strength of up to 35 tonnes per square meter when tensile force is applied parallel to the fastener surface. When it is applied perpendicular to the fastener surface, Metaklett can still withstand a force of seven tonnes per square meter. Moreover, like a standard Velcro fastener on a childâ™s shoe, it can be opened and closed again without the help of any tools.
  (tags: velcro technology)
• Arctic warmest in 2,000 years
  (tags: climate environment science)
• Will it Rain Today?
  Rain radar for the UK
  (tags: weather UK maps radar rainfall forecast)

Gender Roles

Thanks to miss-sb for that one.  I may have fallen into the mistake at the end of the sketch altogether too many times - and I still have to stop myself for falling for it when it comes up.

Room in a flat going

Not my flat  - but diotina is looking for a replacement flatmate.  She's lovely (and nearly as lovely as other flatmate Suze) - and they'd be good people to live with.

The vendor-client relationship

Thanks to soon_lee