Random links
- Melamine tableware may leach chemical: study
- The article notes that "researchers said, that doesn't prove the compound, called melamine, is harmful to kids and adults in the amounts detected when study participants ate hot soup from melamine bowls" yet I'm not sure that anything beyond this was proven with regards to BPA either.
- Japanese finance minister: Old people should 'hurry up and die'
- What happens when the government is committed to paying the bills of old people (pensions, healthcare, etc)?
- Will Jimmy Savile case put men off working in childcare?
- "Men are being put off entering the profession for fear of being labelled as abusers or paedophiles, according to new research by the London Early Years Foundation. We found that 60 per cent of nursery workers felt the main reason for the low numbers of men in the sector was because, socially, men were not encouraged to join the profession, and 51 per cent thought that it was because of society’s attitude to men in childcare."
- The Sleepless World: One more piece of low hanging fruit?
- "Sleep is the second largest single use of time. However, new drugs such as Modafinil appear to vastly reduce the need for sleep without significant side effects (at least so far). Based on reports from users, it seems that people could ... cut their sleep requirements to as few as 2.5 hours a night without a decrease in mental acuity. That gives us another 5 hours to distribute over the day."