Friday Links 17

Humour


American Marathons - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/12/11/koma-comic-strip-im-so-tired-ive-been-watching-for-hours/


How we view Dogs vs Cats - http://comixed.memebase.com/2011/12/08/koma-comic-strip-dogs-vs-cats/


If you didn't already know how to interpret error bar graphs - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/12/10/funny-graphs-the-the-problem-with-errorbars/


A typical comments page on Memebase - http://graphjam.memebase.com/2011/12/10/funny-graphs-i-expect-nothing-less-from-the-comments-below/


Animals


Spontaneous tool use in a dingo - assuming no previous training - http://animalwise.org/2011/12/07/setting-his-own-dinner-table-spontaneous-tool-use-by-a-dingo/


Silverfish rub themselves on adolescent ants to disguise themselves- http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/12/05/impostor-silverfish-rub-up-on-adolescent-ants-to-create-their-smelly-disguises/


Emphatic rats spring each other from jail - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/09/empathic-rats-spring-each-other-from-jail/


The opposite of the bee waggle dance - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/08/how-headbutts-and-dances-give-bees-a-hive-mind/


Design


Realism in UI Design - http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2010/01/21/realism_in_ui_design/


Science


What really happened aboard Air France 447 - http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877


Behavioural Economics: Context determines behaviour - http://www.tutor2u.net/blog/index.php/economics/comments/rory-sutherland-at-zeitgeist#When:18:00:57Z


Society


Sexism in selling science toys to kids - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/12/is-real-science-for-men.html


Family dances happily with dead baby as part of 'grieving ceremony'- http://mindhacks.com/2011/12/01/rainbows-of-mourning/


Edinburg had a library phantom - http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/11/29/142910393/the-library-phantom-returns?f=5500502&ft=1


Films


Short animation film - Horn OK Please - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9Tgo2BLC5_I


Food


Kalyan Karmarkar experiments with Hyderabadi biryanis - http://www.finelychopped.net/2011/12/hyderabadi-biryani-trail-shadab-cafe.html


Anthropology


Dragons as psychological projections of the monsters within ourselves - http://www.salon.com/2011/12/03/the_evolution_of_monsters/

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