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The art of science 2011 Individuals who feel entitled are more inclined to perceive dull tasks as a waste of their time I wonder whether you can infer from the fact the someone is often bored that (s)he has an inflated sense of entitlement Do cows align with the Earth’s magnetic field?Major disagreements among scientists; the main issue seems to be what counts as quality data – perhaps not surprisingly given that the data is cattle photographed from space. Retired US generals outraged that Congress effectively categorizes pizza as a vegetable in school lunch programs

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Alcohol linked to breast cancer (hm, do they sufficiently control for confounding variables?) Scientists more likely to have autistic kids? Probably not, but worth checking the entire Nature issue devoted to autism Ben Goldacre summarizes his experience  writing on bad science Fatty foods as addictive as cocaine  (no, that doesn’t mean cocaine is fine)

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William Niskanen, author of Bureaucracy and Representative Government, dies Does sugar make kids  hyper-active? (No) Testosterone and entrepreneurs (via Chris Blattman) New genetic loci related  to schizophrenia The complexity behind obesity Margaret Thatcher’s £500,000 expenses claim revealed  Dice sculptures (fragment used for the banner of this blog)

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Bisphenol-A  (a  chemical found in plastic bottles) linked to anxiety and hyperactivity  in young girls Childhood  poverty can reset genes A beautiful map of economic complexity A  rant against (American) liberal art professors (and  Anthropology in particular) Andrew Gelman exposes (again) a lying pollster