Interesting Links for 16-11-2011

• Why RIM still hasn't found the cause of its world-wide Blackberry outage
  (tags: blackberry rim technology EpicFail complexity )
• Telegraph hires virulent homophobe as columnist
  (tags: lgbt homophobia telegraph media uk )
• Fail Upwards: Sometimes the best thing that can happen to you is not getting what you want.
  (tags: advice life failure )
• Android soars to 52% global share. Apple up in absolute numbers, RIM static, MS and Symbian down.
  (tags: MobilePhones android iphone )
• LHC results may solve riddle of how universe can exist (if, of course, you believe it does)
  (tags: physics lhc )
• This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years
  (tags: dwolla payments money )
• Republicans pushing pizza, fries in school lunches
  (tags: food usa republicans )
• So, your daughter wants to be a princess...
  (tags: children advice )
• Lab-Grown Meats Face Long Road to Supermarket
  (tags: meat technology thefuture )
• Assuming other people are having a bad day helps you deal with their anger.
  (tags: anger emotion psychology )
• The serotonin system in women's brains is damaged more readily by alcohol than that in men’s brains
  (tags: gender alcohol psychology )
• Smoker vows to risk jail rather than pay litter fine
  (tags: littering crime )
• How Gurkhas came to be Britain's new security army
  (tags: military security gurkha uk nepal )
• Wood smoke from cooking fires linked to pneumonia, cognitive impacts
  (tags: psychology intelligence health development cooking )

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The Grand Canyon after climate change


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