Shared Items for Sat, 31 Oct 2009

  • Be lucky – it’s an easy skill to learn
    “…although unlucky people have almost no insight into the real causes of their good and bad luck, their thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their fortune.”
  • (title unknown)
    “If you actively voted a government in, it will be in your vested interest to support that government and ensure that the governance will be a success. But if you did not exercise that right, there is a high likelihood that you may end up just watching from the sidelines and throwing in criticisms whenever you deem appropriate.”
  • Traits
    Scott Adams ruminates on how selective breeding might shape evolutionary patterns.
  • Medical imaging: What is porn?
    “Dr Pek Van Andel’s MRI sex video has thrust its way into an argument that periodically convulses the public and the courts. The video shows the first moving images of a couple’s sex organs while those organs were in use. It gives graphic new life to a question as old as sin: what is pornography?”
  • The Kids Are All Right
    Older generations always bemoan the morals of those who come after them. … The kids of today will inherit their own particular set of problems…. But they’ll develop their own coping skills and muddle though. They’ll discover what anyone with their head on straight discovers….

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