Random links
- Does This Language Make Me Look Fat?
- Interesting hypothesis: "a new study ... suggests that it could be the language you speak that affects your attitude toward a range of healthy habits, comprising everything from diet and exercise to how much money you save for your retirement. M. Keith Chen, an associate professor of economics at Yale University, claims that languages whose grammar contains no explicit future tense ... are spoken by people who, statistically, are healthier and wealthier."
- Middle class children 'are held back by childcare' as they suffer 'significant declines' in their development
- Kids in daycare: "Childcare was found to significantly improve development for disadvantaged children. But the ‘lion’s share of the population experienced significant declines in motor-social development and health measures as well as increased behavioural problems’, the study found."
- Alcohol as muse
- "[T]he intoxicated participants solved more items on the Remote Associates Test compared with the control participants (they solved 58 per cent of 15 items on average vs. 42 per cent average success achieved by controls), and they tended to solve the items more quickly (11.54 seconds per item vs. 15.24 seconds)."
- Female beach volleyball players permitted to drop bikinis: Less revealing clothing allowed to commodate "cultural requirements"
- I'm guessing that requiring bikinis raised TV ratings somewhat, but it's still kind of silly to require this for an event of this sort.