Daily links for the latest day that I have to repost by hand because LJ is being DDOSed

[andrewducker]

• Airbrushed make-up ads banned for being misleading
  (tags: advertising makeup uk)
• LiveJournal is apparently under DDOS
  (tags: livejournal hacking)
• People at darker, higher latitudes evolved bigger eyes and brains
  (tags: brains humans evolution eyesight)
• Some actual science being done on The Uncanny Valley
  (tags: UncannyValley psychology neuroscience)
• What if Superman used his powers more efficiently?
  (tags: superman comics funny)
• The Final Letter of 'Lois Lane' Joanne Siegel to Time Warner, over their appalling treatment at the hands of her.
  (tags: superman copyright dc WarnerBrothers)
• The Campaign For Real Monopoly
  (tags: games monopoly rules)
• The odd and interesting ways that people feel about numbers
  (tags: numbers)
• Corporal punishment may have long-term negative effects on children's intelligence
  (tags: children punishment violence education intelligence)
• When the USA is so afraid of you that they won't even let you travel over their airspace at 30,000 feet...
  (tags: usa freedom travel mexico wtf)

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

'The reason of technical downtime in blog hosting operation' of LiveJournal rather reinforces the impression that LJ is very much Russia-focused these days.

On the 'big-eyed northeners' thing, I note briefly: (a) wow, Dunbar (as in 's number) is not only still alive but still writing papers, and (b) the measurement of cranial capacity and its variation has not been without controversy in the past, and there are many of the same potential sources of problems here, (http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/07/12/rsbl.2011.0570.full), including the source of the skulls measured, which date to the C19th, the small sample size (n=55 skulls in the final analysis) and the method - sealing up the skull and pouring small spheres in. In these days of MRI it's ... surprising. I'm not saying it's wrong - just that extreme caution needs to be taken.