Interesting Links for 29-01-2016

[andrewducker]

• Apparently I'm worth $18/year to Facebook. How about you? (I'd pay that to get rid of ads.)
  • Facebook money advertising
• The McCullough Effect - visual hallucinations that can last for months, from staring at a pattern.
  • hallucinations vision brain
• Having a Male Co-Twin Improves Mental Rotation Performance in Females (Probably testosterone)
  • gender testosterone babies
• Can brain-parasites influence human culture?
  • ToxoplasmaGondii parasites brain cats society
• The Case For Rey Palpatine
  • starwars writing
• What if all of the people in Star Wars are...insects
  • insects starwars viaTheFerrett
• In Celebration of Old-School LiveJournal
  • LiveJournal community
• Y Combinator are funding research into Basic Income
  • research GuaranteedIncome
• LEGO Debuts Its First Minifig in a Wheelchair
  • Lego disabilities
• Driverless vehicles are coming to London in July
  • automation cars transport UK
• Heterosexual couple lose civil partnership court challenge
  • relationships law UK
• Do violent videogames cause aggressive behaviour? (New research)
  • violence games
• How do people with Dark Triad personality traits fare at speed dating?
  • relationships dating narcissism psychopath psychology personality

Comments

[altamira16]

Y Combinator doing research into basic income is interesting because it is not something that I expected of them.

[andrewducker]

Me either! It seems to be entering more of the public view.

[birguslatro]

Paul Graham has been musing on the problem of poverty...

http://paulgraham.com/ineq.html

but I doubt it's changed his mind about letting the nerds keep their lunch money...

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

The possibility a basic income may solve the former while still allowing for the latter is probably the motivation for the research.