The NZ Law Commission is on the way to cutting back on the availability of alcohol. Their justification is twofold: The contribution that excessive use of alcohol led to law and order problems in the country. The serious health and injury effects from alcohol consumption, as well as a list of other social harms. And […]
Cognitive Daily reports that the study of framing is alive and well, although possibly in the running for an IgNobel Prize: A team led by Simone Schnall asked students walking outside on a college campus to answer questions about scenarios like this, rating them on a scale of 1 (extremely immoral) to 7 (perfectly okay). […]
OK, so this sounds a little incredible to me, but it’s in The Guardian so it must be true, right 😛 Shipping by numbers The world’s biggest container ships have 109,000 horsepower engines which weigh 2,300 tons. Each ship expects to operate 24hrs a day for about 280 days a year There are 90,000 ocean-going […]
I used to be a fan of The Hype Machine, but then I started to feel like the music on it was more hype than substance. People often wonder about how much of the talk about current music ‘sensations’ is hype and how much truth there is to there brilliance. So I was fascinated to […]
When I had breakfast in town over Easter I was charged a 20% surcharge on everything, allegedly because their labour costs are higher over Easter. Now it’s true that they are statutorily required to pay more over the Easter break, so their labour costs are higher; however, the marginal cost of providing a meal is […]
A report in the NYT says that While driving smaller and lighter cars saves fuel, “downsizing and down-weighting is also associated with an increase in deaths on the highway,” said Adrian Lund, the institute’s president. “It’s a big effect — it’s not small,” he said. If you agree and will like to swap you car for […]