Random links
- Do You Actually Eat All You Can Eat?
- "Psychologists at Cornell University wanted to see if people actually eat as much as possible at an 'all-you-can-eat' buffet. ... the researchers worked with a pizza buffet in Chicago and tried two different pricing conditions ... At the regular price, buffeteers ate about four slices on average. But when the price of the buffet was slashed in half, pizza eating dropped 27%. People only ate three slices!" Perhaps the fatwa against all-you-can-eat buffets wasn't such a bad idea as far as fighting obesity goes?
- Student involved in razor incident will return to school Friday
- Apparently stopping someone from cutting themselves up with a razor blade might not be worthy of expulsion after all - shocking!
- Latvians honor Nazi allies from World War II
- The article's text seems to suggest that they were celebrating the local forces fighting against the Stalinist invaders rather than the Nazis themselves. Whether Hitler or Stalin posed a greater threat to Latvians doesn't quite seem clear to me. Both racked up an extremely high body count though I think recent estimates hold Hitler accountable for more. Stalin's system in some regions of killing the upper class and deporting substantial fractions of the remaining population in a number of areas might have been worse for a small country like Latvia though. Read a book like Bloodlands and it becomes hard to determine which of the two was worst in a number of regions.
- When Doctors Need to Lie
- What's the balance between acting in the best interests of a patient and (immediately) telling them the truth?