Interesting Links for 1-9-2011

[andrewducker]

• Exercise boosts health by influencing stem cells to become bone, not fat. (in mice)
  (tags: health exercise stem_cells)
• Hubble Captures Time-Lapse Videos Of Stars Being Born (well, heading for the birth canal)
  (tags: stars astronomy hubble)
• Solar panel prices down 20% so far this year. Grid parity in some places by 2016, apparently.
  (tags: solarpower)
• The future for Britain's finances - not actually doom and gloom
  (tags: economics uk)
• Germany lifts Doom sales ban after 17 years
  (tags: germany censorship computer_games doom)
• London stripper teacher Benedict Garrett defends porn work
  (tags: porn teaching uk)
• The Leak at WikiLeaks: A Dispatch Disaster in Six Acts
  (tags: wikileaks EpicFail TransparentSociety)
• Bacteria discovered that can turn paper/cellulose into butane.
  (tags: power bacteria bioengineering energy recycling)
• Cloud Atlas being made into a movie (in Glasgow). Why did no one tell me?
  (tags: CloudAtlas movies glasgow)
• Superman, Zod and Lex Luthor on Facebook. I laughed.
  (tags: superman comics facebook funny)
• The Best "Out Of Office" response ever.
  (tags: holidays email technology funny)
• Alice and Kev - a story of homeless sims
  (tags: sims homeless gaming games sims3)
• The gender differences in spatial manipulation vanish in a matrilineal culture
  (tags: gender nurture maths india psychology)
• This article rather hits home that Libya's rebels are just ordinary people who weren't going to take their oppression any more.
  (tags: libya people)
• Tories and Lib Dems at odds over reform of human rights law
  (tags: humanrights libdem conservatives politics uk)
• Stabbing, Fleeing, Heroism, Incompetence, Drama Captured in One Shot. Lucky photographer - made excellent use of his placement
  (tags: photography london police crime violence)
• German city of Bonn taxes prostitutes with meter
  (tags: prostitution germany tax)
• MARVEL One-Shot: The Consultant. A short that fits somewhere between The Hulk and Thor, I think.
  (tags: marvel IronMan video)
• Helen Mirren's Magic Bosom
  (tags: HelenMirren video funny breasts)
• 6 Reasons Professional Poker Is Way Harder Than It Looks
  (tags: maths poker money)
• When your standup comedian is quite possibly a rapist.
  (tags: comedy rape culture)
• New study pinpoints areas of the brain used exclusively for language
  (tags: language brains psychology)
• New chemical reagent turns biological tissue transparent
  (tags: biology)
• FixMyTransport - now you can report problems with public transport to the right people online.
  (tags: transport uk)
• An obituary for the 60w light bulb
  (tags: lighting technology)
• Edinburgh trams: SNP to back city centre route. Aaaand thank fuck for that.
  God, I wish I could stop being interested in a fucking tram system. Gah!
  (tags: trams edinburgh)
• Paving Edinburgh's tramway with gold would have been cheaper than the current project
  (tags: edinburgh trams funny)
• When open source is illegal
  (tags: open_source software law)

Comments

[flick]

I was going to say "wow, you had a quiet day at work", but then I saw your earlier post.... [hugs]