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

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Perhaps part of the problem is that many academics are good at research but not good at teaching, and they're expected to do both.