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Sure, it's nice outside, but wouldn't you rather be reading good posts? Science: Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck Genes and Income 15 Horrifying Reasons to Never Let Anyone You Love Near a McDonald's Placebo is not what you think it is Other: Quit Giving Us More Work A cake knife is useless in…
Race and the Full Court Press at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture A good piece on the creepy racial subtext of that Malcolm Gladwell article. (I can stop posting about that any time I want to. Really.) (tags: race culture sports basketball society) Confessions of a…
Happy Friday! Links for you. Science: We need to work together to save the Statistical Abstract of the United States At odds with disease risk estimates The other weaver ants Unauthorized medicine: Leave important clinical testing to the professionals Other: What the Baby Joseph cases tells us…
Male Or Female? Coloring Provides Gender Cues: Our brain is wired to identify gender based on facial cues and coloring, according to a new study published in the Journal of Vision. Psychology Professor Frédéric Gosselin and his Université de Montréal team found the luminescence of the eyebrow…