Interesting Links for 27-5-2011

• What Really Keeps Poor People Poor - lack of access to elite social networks
  (tags: economics education sociology poverty)
• HTC to stop locking smartphone bootloader code
  (tags: mobile_phones security htc)
• Skype's encryption destroyed by phoneme reconstruction
  (tags: language encryption skype)
• Brain's response to sadness can predict relapses into depression
  (tags: depression sadness mri psychology)
• Publishing a commercial book with Creative Commons
  (tags: creativecommons publishing)
• Moments captured by Google Streetview (most of awesome photography is being in the right place)
  (tags: photography google streetview)
• Google Wallet Aims to Take Mobile Payments Mainstream
  (tags: google money payments technology)
• First direct evidence that ADHD is a genetic disorder
  (tags: adhd genetics autism psychology)
• Dreamwidth Q&A Session
  (tags: dreamwidth)
• Depixelizing Pixel Art - amazing work here. I'm very impressed.
  (tags: art graphics microsoft software)
• The difficulty of bringing racial diversity to feminist organisations
  (tags: racism feminism usa)
• A short comic about burnout. I love the art style. Lots more on their site too.
  (tags: comic depression art)
• Humanity wipes out a species it doesn't like. Huzzah!
  (tags: disease)
• High quality feedback from teachers is more effective in raising grades than homework, uniforms and smaller classes
  (tags: education teaching)
• Human brain's 'bat sight' found
  (tags: brain sight)
• What Paddington tells us about German v British manners
  (tags: uk culture language germany)

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