Random links
- Liberals held more secret meetings than Tories: analysis
- "an analysis of Library of Parliament data for the last decade shows the championship title for secretive committee work actually belongs to former prime minister Paul Martin's Liberals. Harper's Tories aren't even the runners up; that honour goes to another Liberal regime, under Jean Chretien." Here's the Liberal defense: "But Liberal House leader Marc Garneau called it misleading to simply tally up time spent in camera. He said the Tories are using their majority to move committee business that used to be public behind closed doors."
- How to nap
- Take a look at the Boston Globe's instructions on optimal napping. When? How long? etc.
- Late night urge to pee linked to a protein: Study
- "Researchers in Japan have pinpointed a protein, known at Cx43, which allows the body to increase the bladder's holding capacity during sleep." - apparently this goes haywire if you don't sleep regular hours.
- Have Poor Eyesight? Maybe You Should Have Played Outside More
- "Studies in places like Singapore of people of a variety of backgrounds—Chinese, Malay, India, in this case—show that genetic heritage doesn’t impact rates of near-sightedness. ... One comparative study that the authors cite found that “time spent outdoors” was the only factor that distinguished kids of Chinese heritage in Singapore, who had high rates of myopia, from kids of Chinese heritage in Sydney, who didn’t. "
- Are Individual or Institutional Investors the Agents of ?Bubbles??
- "Behavioral bubble models typically assume that uninformed\irrational trend-?chasers, presumably individual investors, cause bubbles, while informed\rational ?contrarian investors such as institutions trade against bubbles." However their "findings suggest that ?institutional investors rather than individuals are agents of bubbles."
- The first ever vending machine stopped people from stealing holy water
- "Heron created the first vending machine not out of curiosity, but to stop temple thievery. Patrons of temples commonly took more holy water with them than they paid for — an early failure of the honor system."