• Holy Comolli, Statman! Liverpool’s Data Revolution | The Tomkins Times | Paul Tomkins' blog about Liverpool Football Club (LFC)
  moneyball takes over soccer
• User Testing in the Wild: Joe’s First Computer Encounter « Boriss' Blog
  computers aren't friendly for the non-computer user
• Treating Students as Gifted Yields Impressive Academic Results, Study Finds | Duke Today
  raise expectations
• Charlie's Diary: The High Frontier, Redux
  space travel is really, really, hard: When we look at the rest of the solar system, the picture is even bleaker. Mars is ... well, the phrase "tourist resort" springs to mind, and is promptly filed in the same corner as "Gobi desert". As Bruce Sterling has puts it: "I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."
• oop - Monopoly game in OOD? - Stack Overflow
  got asked this in an interview
• How Can We Get Willpower Back Once It Has Been Depleted? - Science and Religion Today
  eat, sleep, get in a good mood. also, build your willpower muscle
• Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story - Andrew Winston - Harvard Business Review
  So the journal article adds this up to an obvious conclusion: if you want to reduce your food's carbon footprint, eat less meat. In short, "Shifting less than one day per week's worth of calories from red meat and dairy products to chicken, fish, eggs, or a vegetable-based diet achieves more GHG reduction than buying all locally sourced food."
• BBC News - How engineers create artificial sounds to fool us
• Beans and Noses » UIE Brain Sparks
  Time and time again, I come across situations where I think, “OMG! They are trying to stick beans up their nose!” It explains what’s happening and what I should do next. The only thing I can do in a beans-and-noses situation (notice my clever use of flight-attendant grammar forms?) is wait. Wait until the bean is in its final resting place. Then, with a calmness only seen in yoga instructors, I can turn the nose owner and ask, “So, how is that working for you? Did it do everything you’d hoped?” Of course, if they answer they enjoyed it and it was wonderful, then they are not someone I can relate to or help in any way.
• Wolves replace sweat with science in new take on pre-season training | Football | The Guardian
  science of soccer training. replicate in practice the type of runs you do in games (jogs, sprints in short bursts, with rest)
• A History of College Grade Inflation - NYTimes.com
  43% of all letter grades were a's, private colleges leading the way
• Who Cares About Forecast Accuracy? | Robin Hanson | Cato Unbound
  predictions more to signal your affiliation than to be accurate. no one cares about accurate predictions. let people bet, so they can at least profit from accuracy
• The Sunscreen Smokescreen
  takeaways: most people put on 1/3 proper amount of sunscreen. should put on 30 mins before entering sun, 30 minutes after being in the sun.

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