Random links
- Never Having to Say You’re Dead? The New Interest in Reincarnation
- "Readers of the report are likely to note some strange patterns. Why is it that these people seem only to recover knowledge of such noble past lives? A German who refused to betray his Jewish neighbor during the Holocaust? Where are the people who claim in past lives to have been concentration camp guards or complicit neighbors?"
- Drunk or Sober? Harder to Tell Than You Think
- Seems like a good argument that a fixed limit is rather silly... it would seem that the question should be whether or not it actually impacts your behaviour
- Too boring: girls miss the IT boat
- "A study of attitudes to technology and career skills conducted by the Victorian Government in 2001 showed that 36 per cent of girls, compared with 16 per cent of boys, found information and communication technologies boring." ... of course than the article takes the let's-redefine-the-discipline approach. That said, it does make some interesting points about the impact of culture on a lot of these views.
- Frankfort dad wins ruling in intl custody case
- "A Frankfort man, being forced to pay child support for a son who was kidnapped by his mother and taken to Poland 10 years ago, has won a key legal ruling in his case. ...The child support division was enforcing a court order from Poland - even though a Cook County judge previously had ruled that Serrano's son was taken unlawfully from this country, he should have custody and he did not owe child support."