Random links
- Don't park your bike in the bike rack, it's unprofessional
- Style over substance it seems... a story of a ticket issue by an office building in Vancouver complaining that parking a bike in their bike rack all day when working there created this bad image.
- Big pharma mobilising patients in battle over drugs trials data
- "Drugs companies publish only a fraction of their results and keep much of the information to themselves, but regulators want to ban the practice. If companies published all of their clinical trials data, independent scientists could reanalyse their results and check companies' claims about the safety and efficacy of drugs. ... While some companies have agreed to share data more freely, the industry has broadly resisted the moves."
- The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish
- The result of the expansion of copyright: "there were eight times as many books published in the 1980s as in the 1880s, but there are roughly as many titles available on Amazon for the two decades. A book published during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur has a greater chance of being in print today than one published during the time of Reagan."
- Ultra-efficient LED puts out more power than is pumped in
- "The LED produces 69 picowatts of light using 30 picowatts of power, giving it an efficiency of 230 percent. ... it doesn't violate the conservation of energy because it appears to draw in heat energy from its surroundings instead."