Interesting Links for 17-06-2014

• Affectionless, strict parenting increases cannabis and alcohol use in kids
  (tags: children alcohol drugs parenting )
• What's so hard about covering up to breastfeed?
  (tags: breastfeeding )
• Predicting When ‘Game of Thrones’ Author George R. R. Martin Will Come Out With His Next Book (With Science!)
  (tags: GeorgeRRMartin statistics gameofthrones writing vianwhyte )
• How the GoT book chapters and TV episodes are now matching up
  (tags: gameofthrones )
• The Pivot - One of the best explanations I've seen of how Silicon Valley startups work
  (tags: startups business )
• GM banana designed to slash African infant mortality enters human trials
  (tags: genetics food banana Africa )
• Sherlock lives in public domain, US court rules
  (tags: copyright SherlockHolmes usa )
• Smart glasses allow the near-blind to see
  (tags: blindness technology )
• How our brains store recent memories, cell by single cell
  (tags: memory neuroscience )
• Wind turbines pay back their energy costs in six months
  (tags: windpower )
• You can predict how anxious children are from the size of their amygdala
  (tags: anxiety stress children brains )
• Which ‘Mad Men’ Character Are You? (Genius!)
  (tags: madmen funny quiz )
• UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents’ Facebook and Google use
  (tags: uk surveillance Facebook google )

A sudden outbreak of common sense at Livejournal

1) They've decided that you won't be forced to switch to the new friends page.

2) They'd like some advice from you on how to make the site better.

I don't know why we're having signs of the apocalypse, but I'm not going to complain!

I also suggest that you follow both of those communities, because interesting LJ-related stuff happens on both of them.