Interesting Links for 17-07-2015
Jul. 17th, 2015 12:00 pm- Cornwall devolution: First county with new powers
- Jeremy Corbyn's record on SkepticalVoter
- Darth Vader conducts Luton woman's Halloween funeral
- The top tricks supermarkets use to confuse customers
- New micro-needle patches could replace needles, meaning people will never need to be injected again
- How much do electric cars actually pollute?
- Brain network that controls, redirects attention identified
- Kissing isn't common across all cultures
- Dinosaur find: Velociraptor ancestor was 'winged dragon'
- Kitchen gadgets review: the Egg Master – a horrifying, unholy affair
- Time to return to core values? (An outsiders view of the Lib-Dem and Labour leadership races)
- New corporate criminal offence of failure to prevent facilitation of tax evasion to include evasion of non-UK tax
- Why is it so hard to get Superman right in movies?
- Scientists breed genetically modified moths to curb global pest problem costing farmers billions of dollars
- The Maunder Minimum is back! (Maybe. And we probably won’t notice much)
- A nice display of the Magnus Effect, which is how balls can curve in mid-air when you apply spin to them
- Birth order has no meaningful effect on personality or IQ
- Crossing From Right-Hand-Drive Countries to Left-Hand-Drive Countries (and Vice Versa)
- Less than 1% of obese people ever reach "normal" body weight
- Oceans have been slowing global warming - until now
- How the brain copes with noise in your neurons