More random links
- What’s The Best Time of Day to be Creative?
- The answer seems to be: evenings for morning people, mornings for evening people. Does this mean I need to get up earlier?
- A Majority of Americans Opposed Funding Moon Trips—During Apollo
- "A majority of Americans opposed the government funding human trips to the moon both before (July 1967) and after (April 1970) Neil Armstrong took a giant leap for mankind. It was only in the months surrounding Apollo 11 that support for funding the program ever reached above 50 percent."
- The Incidence of Mandated Maternity Benefits
- A study of the impact of government-mandated maternity leave. Not surprisingly, if you raise the average cost to employers to hire members of a particular group they may be willing to pay members of that group only lower salaries.
- Daylight Savings Time and “Cyberloafing”
- Yet another reason to dislike daylight savings time transition - this one with some business merit. You're more likely to be slacking off on Monday it seems...
- U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers
- "The Justice Department believes that Apple and the publishers acted in concert to raise prices across the industry, and is prepared to sue them for violating federal antitrust laws, the people familiar with the matter said." The fairly farcical bit: "They have told investigators that the shift to agency pricing enhanced competition" - to quote a later bit of the article "Government lawyers have questioned how competition could have increased when prices went up."