Interesting Links for 14-1-2011

[andrewducker]

• Lecturer gets class to vote on grade for pregnant student.
  (tags: education pregnancy feminism EpicFail)
• Should I work for Free? (A handy flowchart)
  (tags: work business free flowchart)
• Manmohan Singh - The First Sikh Prime Minister Of...Okay, Here's What A Sikh Is
  (tags: 2010 funny journalism sikh india)
• Foxes use the Earth’s magnetic field as a targeting system
  (tags: earth compass fox animals)
• Being sexually unappealing and eating crap food will ensure Pandas fit right in, say Scots
  (tags: panda scotland funny)
• The US used to have as many people in mental institutions that they now have imprisoned.
  (tags: mental_health prison visualization)
• Women less likely than men to apply for jobs where individual competition determines wages
  (tags: competition jobs gender)
• Chatroulette now making money by selling naked men. Smart move!
  (tags: internet funny socialmedia chatroulette)
• A fantastic look at the current monetary problems in Europe, and what our options are for solving them.
  Personally, I think that it's either going to be more fiscal union or several countries leaving the Euro.
  (tags: europe money euro politics)
• Ian Mckellen talks about what was keeping him from signing up for The Hobbit, and how it was sorted.
  (tags: lotr movies thehobbit IanMcKellen)
• What Went Wrong at Borders - comments from employees at the bottom.
  (tags: borders books)
• Even very short breaks from sitting are good for waistlines and hearts. I try to stand up for a minute or two every hour.
  (tags: heart health)
• Room light before bedtime impacts sleep, blood pressure and diabetes risk. Sadly, in Scotland I'd be in the dark a _lot_.
  (tags: light sleep health technology biology)
• People neglect who they really are when predicting their own future happiness
  (tags: people psychology happiness)
• Scientists demonstrate mammalian regeneration through a single gene deletion
  (tags: science genetics biology bioengineering medicine regeneration)

Comments

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

That light exposure study is people under bright lights late at night ('during usual hours of sleep') so more applicable to people working nightshifts than those of us who live in parts of the world where it goes dark at 3.30pm at mid winter. It would be interesting to see if artifical light between the hours of say 4 and 9 pm when it is dark outside would have the same effect though, especially given Scotland's poor health record.

[andrewducker]

I genuinely would love to know.