{"id":724,"date":"2008-05-27T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T06:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=724"},"modified":"2008-05-27T07:48:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T06:48:55","slug":"links-for-may-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2008\/05\/27\/links-for-may-08\/","title":{"rendered":"links for may 08"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: solid #BBBBBB 1px; font-size: 11px; background-color: #eeeeee; padding: 0px 7px 0px 7px;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7377437.stm\">&#8216;A legal bid to challenge the power of the police to use surveillance against peaceful protesters has been launched at the High Court. &#8216;<\/a> (update: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/oxfordshire\/7415508.stm\">failed<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/may\/05\/healthandwellbeing\">It&#8217;s like waking from a dream, or a light going on, or a giant &#8220;YOU ARE HERE&#8221; sign appearing in the sky. The mere fact that I&#8217;m actually real and actually breathing&#8230;leaves me giddy. It causes a brief surge of clammy, bubbling anxiety, like the opening stages of a panic attack.&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>xkcd: <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/167\/\">nihilism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonbank.com\/item\/124661\">When philosophers go on strike<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevingillan.info\/\">kevingillan.info<\/a> Kevin Gillan&#8217;s website<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spsstools.net\/\">Raynald&#8217;s SPSS Tools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypaper.com\/columns\/story.asp?id=15543\">Anonymous is an anti-scientology thing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de\/en\/institut\/dok\/full\/gg\/mindless\/mindless.pdf\">&#8216;Statistical rituals largely eliminate statistical thinking in the social sciences. Rituals are indispensable for identification with social groups, but they should be the subject rather than the procedure of science.&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/femail\/article.html?in_article_id=420513&#038;in_page_id=1879\">&#8216;According to Dr Nick Neave, an evolutionary psychologist from Northumbria University, not only do [women] need men, they are fundamentally programmed to depend on them.&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/12\/08\/business\/worldbusiness\/08water.html\">Nalgene water bottles removed from sale due to carcinogen fears<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rodrik.typepad.com\/dani_rodriks_weblog\/2008\/03\/american-politi.html\">&#8216;the most telling picture about the U.S. political economy I have ever seen&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtvu.com\/video\/?vid=232044\">Ratemyprofessors.com &#8212; professors strike back<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hassabis, et al. (2007). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/cgi\/reprint\/0610561104v1\">Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine new experiences<\/a>. PNAS DOI: 10.1073\/pnas.0610561104<\/li>\n<li>YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=Bn59zha-uAQ\">aikido vs kicks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dore Dyslexia &#8216;miracle cure&#8217; story update <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/?p=705\">bad science<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindhacks.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/miracle_cure_for_d.html#comments\">mindhacks.com<\/a> (make sure you read the comments)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A legal bid to challenge the power of the police to use surveillance against peaceful protesters has been launched at the High Court. &#8216; (update: failed) It&#8217;s like waking from a dream, or a light going on, or a giant &#8220;YOU ARE HERE&#8221; sign appearing in the sky. 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