Random links
- Reading offers Brazilian prisoners quicker escape
- "Inmates in four federal prisons holding some of Brazil’s most notorious criminals will be able to read up to 12 works of literature, philosophy, science or classics to trim a maximum 48 days off their sentence each year, the government announced." It's a bit strange perhaps but this actually doesn't sound like a terrible idea to me.
- Why do some Muslims hate America? Researchers offer an intriguing new answer
- "Analysis of a huge amount of survey data collected from 13,000 Muslims in 21 countries showed that those countries where people expressed the most anti-American views were also those where two powerful political elites (one Islamist and one secular) were competing fiercely with each other for supporters."
- On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels
- "Orbitz Worldwide Inc. has found that people who use Apple Inc.'s Mac computers spend as much as 30% more a night on hotels, so the online travel agency is starting to show them different, and sometimes costlier, travel options than Windows visitors see."
- Kinderkookkafe: The Restaurant Run by Kids
- "The place is part restaurant, part cooking school and part day care. Parents drop their kids off in the afternoon and return to eat the meal the children have made. While the kids are there, they are taught how to cook, serve and wait." I'm guessing they get around child labour laws by only serving the parents of the kids?
- The halakhic condom – a solution for Orthodox women?
- The weirdness of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. "for women with shorter cycles, ovulation occurs before they go to the mikveh, and they can’t conceive. Even though they’re technically healthy, Jewish law has rendered these women “halakhically infertile.”" So basically they're using condoms in this case with the intent of getting women pregnant.