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Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect
Placebo effect - only subjective perception, or objective results? [09 Jan 08]
Happiness may be good for your health | Health | Reuters
[02 Jan 08]
Edge
Thought-provoking essays. [01 Jan 08]
World outsources pregnancies to India
Clinic in India which provides surrogate mothers for couples worldwide. [30 Dec 07]
William McDonough presentation at Bioneers 2000
Excellent talk by this architect about a different perspective to designing things. "If I find myself going to Canada but I'm supposed to go to Mexico, it's not help me to slow down to 20." "Is effeciency good? Not if you're a Nazi!" [27 Dec 07]
Predicting The Future
Great essay by Alan Kay about great design and good ideas. "how smart you had to be in Roman times to multiply two numbers together; only geniuses did it. We haven't gotten any smarter, we've just changed our representation system." [24 Dec 07]
TED | Talks | Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen (video)
This talk is great because the data visualization is awesome (has been acquired by Google) the facts presented will challenge many pre-concieved notions you may have. [19 Dec 07]
The Island of Doubt
"All newly built homes to produce more energy than they consume by 2020." [20 Nov 07]
The Political Compass - Test
[09 Nov 07]
Technology in India and China
economist.com [08 Nov 07]
Charles Darwin: Religious belief
Mirror neurons, Altruism, Neuroscience | Salon News
What the Founding Fathers Meant by "Militia"
[18 Oct 07]
Anti-Terrorism Cartoons in the Arab Press
[18 Oct 07]
Milgram experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Going to the Mattresses - By Seth Stevenson - Slate Magazine
Features of Common Lisp (by Abhishek Reddy)
The obscure game-theory problem that explains why rich countries are rich. - By Tim Harford - Slate Magazine
Clinical depression | Something in the way he moves | Economist.com
Sam Sedaei: Smartest Man in the Room - Politics on The Huffington Post
Scientists Spot Brain's 'Free Will' Center on Yahoo! Health
Nathan Gonzalez: Who's Our Enemy Again? - Politics on The Huffington Post
[17 Sep 07]
Pagoda: A first-class plugin-based content management system
[16 Sep 07]
Great Quotes about God and Government
EE - Extension languages for Python
Logix Home
Town ditches traffic lights to cut accidents | U.S. | Reuters
[12 Sep 07]
Static/Strong/Implicit Typing - comp.lang.lisp | Google Groups
PL PATTERNS: Static Vs. Dynamic Typing
How to Change the World: TechShop: Geek Heaven
YouTube - The 2 minute Republican National Convention