Random links
- Blurry Glasses=Modesty Police
- "In some ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel, shops are now selling eye glasses with lenses that intentionally blur whatever the wearer is looking at, the web site ynet reports. The goal is to allow men to walk through their neighborhoods without having to risk getting a good look at immodestly clad women."
- Automatic Emergency Braking to become standard equipment
- "EuroNCAP, the safety organisation that gives star ratings to most new cars has said it will not give a five star rating to new cars from 2014 unless they are fitted with Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB). ... [which] automatically apply the brakes if the integrated radar system picks up an obstacle immediately in front of the car which the driver has not reacted to."
- Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
- The paper asserted that "In decisions ranging from paper reviews to hiring, many social and personality psychologists admit that they would discriminate against openly conservative colleagues." One of the researchers argued that their survey questions "were so blatant that I thought we’d get a much lower rate of agreement ... Usually you have to be pretty tricky to get people to say they’d discriminate against minorities." A particularly interesting bit: "Generally speaking, the more liberal the respondent, the more willingness to discriminate and, paradoxically, the higher the assumption that conservatives do not face a hostile climate in the academy." Seems worthwhile noting that this study focused on the field of social psychology.
- Hate when a stranger sits next to you on a bus? You’re not alone
- "Esther Kim, a graduate student at Yale University who travelled thousands of miles on Greyhound buses to explore these “unspoken rules and behaviours of commuters,” published her findings in the recent issue of Symbolic Interaction."