Random links
- Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started
- "one expects a certain ritual in these sorts of authoritarian elections, a fealty to at least the appearance of democracy, if not democracy itself. So it was a bit awkward when Azerbaijan's election authorities released vote results – a full day before voting had even started."
- Laptop multitasking hinders classroom learning for both users and nearby peers
- "participants who multitasked on a laptop during a lecture scored lower on a test compared to those who did not multitask, and participants who were in direct view of a multitasking peer scored lower on a test compared to those who were not. The results demonstrate that multitasking on a laptop poses a significant distraction to both users and fellow students"
- Judge to Man: You're Still Legally Dead
- Such was the verdict: "Donald Miller remains legally dead, even though he showed up in court and tried to persuade a judge otherwise. As you can guess, there's a long story here"
- Women 'smell' their competition
- "Just a whiff of a woman close to ovulation is enough to stimulate another woman's testosterone levels, along with her desire to compete. ... Women exposed to the scent of high fertility females displayed greater levels of testosterone. The smell of a low fertility woman actually caused testosterone levels in the sniffers to significantly drop." The article also does mention that similar effects seems to exist in the male population.