Interesting Links for 18-11-2011

[andrewducker]

• Some interesting changes being recommended for the Scottish justice system
  (tags: scotland law crime rights )
• The Gamburtsevs - Earth's most extraordinary mountains
  (tags: mountains antarctic )
• Intel shows off its Knights Corner one teraflops chip - Larrabee finally pays off!
  (tags: Intel teraflop computers Technology processor )
• Is slow TV taking over the airwaves? (No. But it's nice to see some)
  (tags: tv uk )
• Ex-MI5 boss to call for cannabis to be decriminalised
  (tags: drugs uk )
• Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits.
  Surely this violates minimum wage laws?
  (tags: welfare benefits uk work slavery )
• 5 Skills You Need To Thrive In Modernity (That Nobody Bothered To Teach You)
  (tags: advice )
• Have taxpayers got a decent deal on the Northern Rock sale?
  (tags: NorthernRock banking uk virgin )
• Comedy foreign accents: Are they ever a good idea?
  (tags: humour accents voice )
• Boffins build bigger, better battery.
  (tags: batteries Technology )
• National Geographic Photo Contest 2011. Wow. These are _amazing_
  (tags: photography National_Geographic amazing nature )
• When a coyote climbs into your fridge.
  (tags: usa chicago coyote animals )
• How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime - Jobs & Economy - The Atlantic Cities
  (tags: drugs crime economics cocaine violence )
• Mozilla deploying BrowserID on its own sites
  (tags: browserid identity mozilla )
• Boys’ brains, girls’ brains: How to think about sex differences in psychology.
  (tags: gender neuroscience psychology )
• France needs to upgrade all nuclear reactors
  (tags: nuclear power france safety )
• Training in concrete thinking can be self-help treatment for depression
  (tags: depression thinking concrete abstraction treatment psychology )

Comments

[artkouros.livejournal.com]

I read "cannabis" as "cannibals". That would be interesting.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I think that probabably the biggest single thing we could do to improve the peace, prosperity, freedom and security of people on our planet is to legalise drugs.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

I'm uncomfortable about the removal of the requirement for corroboration.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

The Gamburtsevs are pretty much where Lovecraft placed the Miskatonic Mountains in 'At the Mountains of Madness'.

Minimum wage laws?

[0olong.livejournal.com]

I don't think you need to worry about minimum wage unless you're paying something.