Sites that I've bookmarked this week:
Cognitive Dissonance Theory (you value more what you have to work harder to obtain)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la-heb-food-hard-to-get-20111105,0,6232759.story
Fantasy world-building
http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions/
The well-being of sperm
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bpa-semen-quality
Neanderthals Live On
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ozzy-osbourne-genome
Or maybe they don't
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dna-sequence-may-be-lost-in-tr
Did We Mate With Neanderthals Or Eat Them?
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/nov/30-did-we-mate-with-neanderthals-or-murder-them
Motivated Reasoning (Believing what you want to believe, regardless of the evidence)
http://www.skepdic.com/motivatedreasoning.html
Critique of the Kindle and its ilk, and gobsmacking ignorance about copyright law
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-trouble-with-e-readers&page=2&posted=1#comments
One ripped-off author
http://www.kpho.com/news/25653553/detail.html
Ripping (Rightly) Into (an alleged) Ripper-Offer
http://illadore.livejournal.com/30674.html
http://nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com/1
A lot of good info about copyright and a who's who of professionals who care passionately about plagiarism and copyright infringement.
For Lovers Of Lists (10 Things You Didn't Know...)
http://discovermagazine.com/columns/20-things-you-didnt-know
Do let me know which you enjoyed most, if any!
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
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