Random links
- Ancient Rain Forests Found Upside in Heat Stress
- Maybe increasing climate change won't lead to species extinction: "Analyzing pollen in rock cores, the geologist and botanist Carlos Jaramillo focused on a period called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, which occurred about 56 million years ago. It was an age in which temperatures suddenly jumped by three to five degrees and carbon dioxide levels doubled. Faced with those temperature and atmospheric stresses, the rain forests of the time actually thrived, the scientists found, with a rapid increase in plant diversity and the emergence of new species."
- Going Dutch: Women in the Netherlands work less, have lesser titles and a big gender pay gap, and they love it.
- Versus American women who average happiness is going downhill...
- The food-mood connection
- Apparently sugar doesn't really make kids hyperactive... it's the events surrounding such consumption.
- 'Smart' vending machines triple sales
- I was a bit amused by this note in this story on using biometrics in vending machines to provide recommendations: "Quite how customers react to being recommended three diet beverages based on the vending machine’s judgemental leer is unclear, but the idea of a catty, bitchy machine is certainly intriguing."
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Sarennah
Wed, 2010-11-17 19:26
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Smart Vending
So the smart vending machine idea-- the recommendation is interesting -but how can it tell your attributes? What if you're wearing a thick coat or sunglasses or something? The idea is intriging-- but so long as it doesn't FORCE you to buy only what it recommends it doesn't seem too terrible.
As far as the food-mood connection - Kids get excited about sugar because it tastes good and they rarely get it. Hence sugar = hyper kids.