Random links
- Brigands seeking harbours
- Argues that piracy goes up rather than down when countries move from complete anarchy to partial law-and-order. It's apparently due to the pirate's need to safely get the goods they've stolen to market.
- When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?
- "We find the look unsettling today, yet social convention of 1884, when FDR was photographed at age 2 1/2, dictated that boys wore dresses until age 6 or 7, also the time of their first haircut. Franklin’s outfit was considered gender-neutral." This article also provides a quote from a June 1918 Ladies’ Home Journal article which stated that: "The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls"
- Experts want 'night eating' recognized as disorder
- Apparently I must have come down with some sort of disease... night-owl-itis might be a more accurate description of my condition though. This particular illness doesn't seem to factor that in.
- Weight loss improves memory, research shows
- They seem to be dealing here with people > 300 lb who in the post-gastric-bypass-surgery group lost 50 lbs on average here over a 12 week timespan. I'm wondering if the effects might be more a result of a general improvement of mood as a result of rapidly slimming down.