Interesting Links for 28-4-2011

[andrewducker]

• What can movie stars tell us about marriage? That education matters.
  (tags: education relationships)
• Small areas of the brain go to sleep when we're up too late
  (tags: sleep brain)
• Simple tests may spot autism in one-year-olds
  (tags: autism children)
• Aircraft carrier costs to rise by at least a billion (again) - now double the original cost.
  (tags: military uk budget EpicFail)
• The Suck Fairy - when re-reading childhood favourites is a bad idea.
  (tags: books reading)
• Apple is apparently not storing your location. Kinda.
  (tags: apple location privacy)
• Empathy, evil and justice at the Royal Institution
  (tags: empathy genetics hormones nurture psychology)
• Windows 8 to have account roaming via the cloud.
  (tags: windows identity data internet)
• A good overview of what today's GDP figures mean for the economy
  (tags: gdp economy uk)
• Vote now for the best sci-fi film never made (I voted for The Forever War)
  (tags: movies scifi)

Comments

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

What I find genuinely bizarre about the aircraft carriers is that apparently the government are in the regular habit of signing contracts with private companies in which they are allowed to run over budget as much as they please, and the government will happily pay.

This seems the exact opposite of the way every other contract in the world works. If somebody says they will deliver 'x' for 'y', then you pay 'y', and its their job to make sure they can still make a profit at it.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

You know, it's strange. I was almost certain their was a movie version of Stranger In A Strange Land with David Bowie in it. But, checking IMDB, apparently not. I wonder how I got that in my head.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

If there's such a thing as reliable empathy testing, I recommend it for administrators in the caring professions.