Interesting Links for 17-05-2012
- When a local pizza parlour buys ads on Facebook, how well do they do?
- Children's shows to leave BBC One
- Fury as blind people hit by benefit reform
- How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit
- Quantitative easing brings down yield on gilts, pushes pension funds into debt, so they need to be topped up.
- Some clarity on how the numbers on doctors and nurses have changed in the last few years.
- People can guess sexual orientation in just 50ms. 57% accurate for men, 65% for women.
- The USA has already had a gay president
- Apparently actual twincest is really big. Who knew?
- The Story of the Five Year Old Who Met The Avengers
- 60 Percent Of Young American Adults Are Misinformed About Birth Control's Effectiveness
- The olympic torch - first lit by Nazis.
- The UK's new volunteer national service looks actively positive.
- The WTO hates dolphins
- Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
- A good piece on why Class is entwined in privilege
- Meet the worst 8th grade math teacher in NYC (Standardised testing at its worst)
- Non-Hispanic white births the minority in US
- Tidal power gets a stormy birth off coast of Scotland