Random links
- For the Love of Money
- An interesting piece on money becoming an addiction. The opening paragraph: "In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted."
- North Carolina Suspends Internal Research That Made Their Athletes Look Bad
- "UNC-Chapel Hill is trying to disqualify research by one of their own employee, after results ... found that 60 percent of the 183 football and basketball players she studied were reading somewhere between a fourth and eighth grade level."
- McDonald's Advice To Underpaid Employees: Break Food Into Pieces To Keep You Full
- Given obesity being a bigger problem than starvation amongst the poor in the US these days perhaps this isn't a bad idea? (The pay of McDonalds employees is a separate question). My favourite of the crazy ways to get people to slow down their eating in hopes of avoiding obesity: using smaller plates.
- Women want ban on marriage to deities
- "Women in southern Nigeria have been protesting against alleged ritual killings and 'forced marriages' to traditional deities, it’s reported."