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Nov. 14th, 2011
Interesting Links for 14-11-2011
Nov. 14th, 2011 11:00 am- Lord of the Rings: an allegory of the PhD?
- Drug Shows Promise in Fighting Obesity - knocks 11% off of body weight in 4 weeks, improved insulin processing
- Android Face Unlock feature will unlock when it sees a photo of your face.
- How Google gives away its services to make more money.
- UK law change means that credit unions can properly compete with banks. I hope they spread.
- Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements. Nice visualisation
- Smog-eating material breaking into the big time
- What writers can learn from First Person Shooter games.
- A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain (hint: you are also all of your senses)
- Now that's _got_ to hurt.
- Building a park _underneath_ New York.
- Without consent: how drugs companies exploit Indian 'guinea pigs'.
- Remembrance Sunday and Germans
- Move over, Frank Miller: or why the Occupy Wall Street kids are better than #$%! Spartans
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