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Interesting Links for 10-08-2012
Aug. 10th, 2012 12:00 pm- How does the Corby by-election change the UK's electoral mathematics?
- 1300 extreme porn convictions in the last year. Rather more than the original estimate of _30_
- Spotify, Pandora, Streaming Music Make Up 25 Percent of Warner Digital's revenue
- Paying Prisoners £3 an hour - a solution.
- Natural birth -- but not C-section -- triggers brain-boosting proteins (in mice)
- Deep-fried Mars Bar inventors seek EU protected status
- How not to be a sex creep.
- How to deal with there being a sex creep in your social circle
- Change Your Passwords (Again): Battle.net Breached
- Student scores improve if teachers given incentives upfront
Shows that teachers can have a strong effect and incentives could be used better in general.
- Brain in a dish flies jet plan simulator. (In 2004. Presumably nowadays they use them to predict the stock exchange)
- Psychotherapy is effective but underutilized
- Drinking at work makes you more creative (but less able to focus)
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