More random links
- Why a woman’s age at time of marriage matters, and what this tells us about the apex fallacy
- "The common belief that divorce rates are driven by men discarding older wives for a younger model simply doesn’t fit with the data. This is reinforced when you consider that the AARP found that 66% of the divorces in middle age were initiated by women"
- Vaccine to stop heart attacks could be developed
- "Injections of antibodies could prevent the build up of fat in the arteries which cause narrowings and break off leading to heart attacks, experts said. ... Several different approaches are in the pipeline and could be licensed within five years, the Frontiers in CardioVascular Biology meeting at Imperial College London was told."
- The psychological secret to humor is making immoral behavior seem harmless
- "A sense of humor is one of our most fundamentally human behaviors, but psychologists and philosophers alike have never really been able to satisfactorily explain why we find certain things funny. The latest theory suggests it's all about benign immorality."
- Amazing! Google's self-driving car allows the blind to drive
- A Google Test Drive - they had a cop in the car to supervise (dual control perhaps?) but I'm still a bit curious how they got approval for this. Thought that Nevada might have already tweaked it's laws to allow for self-driving cars, but didn't think that California was at that state.