Random links
- Boys raised by traditional families 'do better at school'
- "Researchers in the United States tested various theories to explain bad behaviour and low standards among boys and concluded that “home-based” influences played a much bigger part than biological differences, the style of early education, teacher gender or peer pressure. ... The study found that indiscipline reduced among boys brought up by two parents and increased sharply among those raised by single-mothers. ... The relationship between family structure and behaviour appeared to be “much weaker” for girls, it was claimed." Might the lower link between family structure and the behaviour of girls have something to do with most single-parent families being headed by women?
- Paging Dr. Siri
- "I have nothing against my physician but I would prefer to be diagnosed by a computer. A typical physician spends most of the day playing twenty questions. Where does it hurt? Do you have a cough? How high is the patient’s blood pressure? But an expert system can play twenty questions better than most people. An expert system can use the best knowledge in the field, it can stay current with the journals, and it never forgets."
- Novel Nanoparticle Vaccine Cures Type 1 Diabetes in Mice
- Would be really interesting if this also works in humans. Guess we'll have to wait to find out.
- Pasta Geometries
- I posted a bit about this before a few months back, but the New York Times lets you get a better view.