Random links
- Monkey markets in everything, game theory edition
- Apparently you can charge people a couple hundred dollars per month to get a monkey to pee at your house.
- Fukushima’s doses tallied
- "Studies indicate minimal health risks from radiation in the aftermath of Japan’s nuclear disaster." In other news, the UK seems to be pushing for more nuclear power though France and Germany both seem to be backing away.
- The 10 most painful stings on the planet, by the self-sacrificing man who tried 150 different varieties in the name of science
- This sounds like a good candidate for worst-job-ever!
- The Ketchup Bottle of the Future!
- A use for nano-engineering. Some folks from MIT have "invented a bottle coating, LiquiGlide, which takes solid form but is 'lubricated' like a liquid. Put it inside a ketchup bottle, one researcher says, and the ketchup 'just floats right onto the sandwich.'" (video at the link).
- A Letter from Mark Zuckerberg
- A faux-letter written by comedian Andy Borowitz from shortly before Facebook's IPO: "those bad dot-com stocks were all speculation and hype, and weren’t based on real businesses. Facebook, on the other hand, is based on a solid foundation of angry birds and imaginary sheep." I've been reading a fair number of articles suggesting that Facebook's somewhat failing IPO markets the start of the burst of the second tech bubble.