More random links
- Could Nate Silver Predict How Good Your Pumpkin Pie Will Be?
- " Lada Adamic ... and her team have come up with an algorithm to guess how successful a recipe will turn out. And the math works surprisingly well. It predicts with nearly 80 percent accuracy how many stars your mother's cranberry recipe will receive on allrecipes.com. Plus, it can recommend ingredient replacements to make your pie crust and potatoes more healthful."
- Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
- "legalization is associated with an 8 to 11 percent decrease in traffic fatalities."
- Save Humanity From Asteroids With Reflective Paint Clouds, Says MIT Grad. Really.
- An interesting idea based on increasing the reflectivity of an asteroid and hence using the sun's energy to shift its trajectory.
- Couples who share the housework are more likely to divorce, study finds
- "Divorce rates are far higher among “modern” couples who share the housework than in those where the woman does the lion’s share of the chores, a Norwegian study has found." - far higher here translates to 50% higher.