Delicious LiveJournal Links for 12-3-2010

[andrewducker]

• Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler and changed the course of WWII
  (tags: military spying wwii espionage uk germany)
• Genes and culture: OXTR gene influences social behaviour differently in Americans and Koreans
  (tags: anthropology biology genetics psychology culture oxytocin)
• Amazon responds to questions about why it dumped Wikileaks
  (tags: wikileaks amazon cloud)
• Having a gene that also increases gambling, alcoholism and sensation-seeking behaviour makes infidelity more likely
  (tags: genetics sex relationships)
• Astoundingly, injecting poison extracted from bacteria can have long term negative effects. And you can't smile either.
  (tags: PlasticSurgery botox bacteria health)
• Google cracking down on copyright infringing websites.
  (tags: google search piracy copyright)
• Amazon adds Wikipedia to book-shopping pages
  (tags: amazon web shopping wikipedia books)
• Google block loophole used by scam artist who was using negative publicity to boost his search rankings.
  (tags: google search marketing internet)
• Speed Up Firefox by Loading Tabs On-demand
  (tags: firefox)
• David Milliband approved deal to hide loophole for US Cluster Bombs. Lucky he didn't win the Labour Leadership, eh....
  (tags: wikileaks politics military labour uk usa)
• UK offers families raw deal - fourth from bottom of the 21 countries surveyed.
  (tags: family uk)
• We're all fooled by special offers
  (tags: shopping business)

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Genes and culture: OXTR gene influences social behaviour differently in Americans and Koreans

While the article is short (and the sample size was not large), I'm still very pleased (and a bit surprised) to see an study about behavior and genetics that doesn't look to be obviously junk - perhaps greater sense is finally becoming common in this field.

[strawberryfrog.livejournal.com]

We've known for a while that David Milliband is tainted - he got Iraq on him while he was foreign secretary.

[snarlish.livejournal.com]

re: Mincemeat... i've been reading the book while taking nice long baths. It's cracking. I'd also recommend Agent Zigzag. One thing Ive noticed is all the British and German secret service guys seem to like either fishing or collecting butterflies.