Random links
- Extraordinary Photographs of Animals Inside the Womb
- From an upcoming National Geographic documentary.
- Prejudice and truth about the effect of testosterone on human bargaining behaviour
- A study published in Nature: "Here we show that the sublingual administration of a single dose of testosterone in women causes a substantial increase in fair bargaining behaviour, thereby reducing bargaining conflicts and increasing the efficiency of social interactions. However, subjects who believed that they received testosterone—regardless of whether they actually received it or not—behaved much more unfairly than those who believed that they were treated with placebo. Thus, the folk hypothesis seems to generate a strong negative association between subjects’ beliefs and the fairness of their offers, even though testosterone administration actually causes a substantial increase in the frequency of fair bargaining offers in our experiment."
- Senator allowed to vote four months after she was diagnosed with dementia
- Note that this not only followed a diagnosis of dementia but her being declared "legally incompetent"
- Tanner v. United States
- What does it take to get the results of a US jury trial overturned? Apparently the following isn't reason enough: "the jury had been consuming copious amounts of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine during the course of the trial and deliberations."