Random links
- As Wealth and Literacy Rise in India, Report Says, So Do Sex-Selective Abortions
- This seemed to be a disappearing issue in other parts of the world (and the trend in sex-selection IVF procedures in North America favours female babies), but in India it seems as though things are getting worse for girls.
- Bad boys most attractive, happy guys not so much: UBC study
- "Happy smiling men are consistently rated least attractive by women when compared to proud or brooding men... In women, happiness is the most attractive expression to men." Basically they seem to reduce cranky males to high-status males and happy women to fertile women. You can find the study here.
- More Weather Deaths? Wanna Bet?
- The byline: "Contrary to what many environmentalists would have us believe, Americans are increasingly less likely to be killed by severe weather."
- Cookulus
- This sounds interesting: "The restrictive thing about writing recipes is that unless home cooks have a lot of cooking knowledge to manipulate what’s on the written page they are stuck with what I write. But on a tablet or smart phone (or anything with a touch screen) the user should be able to change what is happening in the recipe at will."
- The Lord Provideth: Woman wins $1million Lotto jackpot after atheist son prays for prize
- What can I say other than that I'm amused: "A non-religious son who mockingly prayed for God to let his mother win the lottery was stunned after she hit the $1 million jackpot the next day."
- Peer review with SWoRD
- This looks like an interesting way to try to get writing assignments in large-scale classes.