Random links
- Bite-size foods are more rewarding, suggests study
- The summary: "Smaller pieces of food are more ‘rewarding’ and lead to a greater feeling of fullness than one large piece of food with equal energy values, say researchers."
- Dutch Sports Revival Puts Canal-Vaulting Back in the Spotlight
- Meet canal-vaulting, kolf, and pole-sitting...
- Quebec Muslim activist becomes first woman charged under 9/11 terror laws over Hezbollah gun-running plot
- "A Quebec activist who fought the stereotyping of Muslims was charged with supporting terrorism on Friday after an RCMP investigation linked her to an alleged scheme to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon." (Yes, I realize that organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah aren't exclusively terrorist in nature - they have some other aspects as well. Still it seems to make sense to classify those organization as terrorist in nature, and in this case it's pretty hard to argue that gun smuggling is something done with peaceful intent.
- VIDEO: Man busted by his mom during robbery
- "Twenty-two-year-old Roy Mitchell's mother stopped him during the middle of his crime by taking away the weapon he had aimed at the clerk. It was all caught on video."
- There is no baby boomer (or silent) generation divorce spike at retirement
- You'll hear two types of suggestions made: (a) husbands divorce their wives as they get older, trading them in for younger models, and (b) that wives divorce their husbands once they retire due to, well, having to put up with them all day. Both suggestions appear to be false.