It’s thought of as a sexual stereotype: boys tend to play with toy cars and diggers, while girls like dolls. But male monkeys, suggests research, are no different. This could mean that males, whether human or monkey, have a biological predisposition to certain toys, says Kim Wallen, a psychologist at Yerkes National Primate Research Center [...]
Read more →Just… watch this. Tell me if you didn’t just see the future flash before your eyes. Balls. Of. Steel. They keep this stuff up, and they could get the four or five percent it would take to start fixing shit on a major scale.
Read more →http://www.scribd.com/doc/2425806/The-Art-of-Designing-Markets Long write up of that kidney market which gets more matches between donors and patients than can be got without performing a global optimization. Very good stuff.
Read more →The Islamic Conference (OIC) has allegedly punched a hole in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by inserting the following text into some UN docs. To report on instances where the abuse of the right of freedom of expression constitutes an act of racial or religious discrimination taking into account Articles 19(3) and 20 of [...]
Read more →http://www.wattzon.org/gameplan.htm via Jonathan Sanderson. Doesn’t really mention next gen solar, unfortunately.
Read more →WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U2 lead singer and activist Bono visited the Pentagon to discuss Africa and the fight against global poverty with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, representatives of the two men said on Wednesday. Among the topics at the 20-minute meeting on Tuesday afternoon were U.S. plans to set up a new U.S. military [...]
Read more →If we conduct military operations on your soil and we don’t feel the need to tell your government about it beforehand (e.g., Somalia, Pakistan), you’re in the Gap. Barnett on core and gap. Other good bits from his blog of late: Chinese peacekeepers in the Sudan http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/the_end_of_were_not_political.html Cheap chinese equipment changing lives in Africa http://www.thomaspmbarnett.com/weblog/2008/02/yuan_diplomacy_work_the_bottom.html [...]
Read more →Huge public event, and people sound pissed. The sidelong glance he gives the crowd practically says just you wait, humans…
Read more →Said just after the 1:30 mark. Hilarious.
Read more →SANTIAGO, Chile — When military forces loyal to Gen. Augusto Pinochet staged a coup here in September 1973, they made a surprising discovery. Salvador Allende’s Socialist government had quietly embarked on a novel experiment to manage Chile’s economy using a clunky mainframe computer and a network of telex machines. Enlarge This Image Joao Pina for [...]
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