Random links
- Cheating for Charity
- ”New research indicates that people may be more likely to lie when a charity benefits from their dishonesty.“
- Spanish Is Faster Than English, But Mandarin Is Slow
- ”Some languages sound faster than others, but most convey information at the same rate”
- Are our street names sexist?
- ”A tiny proportion of streets in Rome are named after women, while nearly half are named after men - and it is a similar story in other major cities around the world. Outrageous sexism, a simple fact of history, or both?” Somehow I’m not feeling particularly outraged at this - besides most of those names are probably technically family names anyways.
- Thai student's money-making effort at centre of US Supreme Court copyright case
- Apparently at least in the US it may be illegal to resell foreign purchased works in the country if those works say “for sale only in countries A, B, and C” even if the work was originally legally purchased there. International editions can be quite a bit cheaper - albeit generally with lower print quality.