Interesting Links for 07-05-2012
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andrewducker- The real reasons Boris won and Ken lost
- Timeline of the far future
- Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief
- Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments for Teachers (and frankly, anyone with a brain)
- A majority of voters still in favour of Proportional Representation
- The Scale of the Universe (it's very big, and made of very small things)
- You've just been made minister for Awesome Fun Times. What do you do?
- The caramelized onions are a lie!
- If the CIA has confirmed they tortured someone why does the BBC keep putting the word "alleged" before the word "torture"?
- I am a statistician and I buy lottery tickets
- lessons learned from an iPhone mugging
- The frequent fliers who flew too much.
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Date: 2012-05-07 11:54 am (UTC)Wow, I never before felt that the age of the universe so far was small.
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Date: 2012-05-07 12:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-07 12:06 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_an_expanding_universe
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Date: 2012-05-07 12:43 pm (UTC)Wow! How could that happen? One would never have thunk it.
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Date: 2012-05-07 01:54 pm (UTC)Not sure if something got messed up, but I just turned off the LJ autoformat. It looks the same on mine, but might look better on yours.
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Date: 2012-05-08 03:06 am (UTC)I was surprised by the indication in the mugging article that IPhones cost 700 pounds in the UK. That seems awfully much (says a person who's never even touched one)... But perhaps that corresponds to the most expensive one on the Apple site, which is $850 (64 GB, unlocked, contract-free).
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Date: 2012-05-07 05:13 pm (UTC)As for the lottery article, I'll need to take a longer look at it, but I'm not convinced that it would work with the UK lottery. Since half of the UK money goes straight into lottery related charities, it means that regular players have at most a 50% expected return, and it's probably much less than that. Perhaps that return is elevated when there are a few rollovers in a row, but that doesn't happen very often. On the other hand, half of all the money goes to making the country better, so it's not all bad.
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Date: 2012-05-08 01:31 pm (UTC)"Researchers used problem-solving tasks and subtle experimental priming...to successfully produce “analytic” thinking. The researchers, who assessed participants’ belief levels using a variety of self-reported measures, found that religious belief decreased when participants engaged in analytic tasks, compared to participants who engaged in tasks that did not involve analytic thinking."
Was that not what you wanted?
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