Friday, August 26, 2011

Daily Links: August 26, 2011




Atheists Supply Less Than 1% Of Prison Populations, While Christians Make -Up 75%.


The hidden meaning of pronouns: "we can predict people’s college performance reasonably well by simply analyzing their college admissions essays. ... Higher GPAs were associated with admission essays that used high rates of nouns and low rates of verbs and pronouns. The effects were surprisingly strong and lasted across all years of college, no matter what the students’ major.

Killed by Inventiveness - A list of inventors killed by their own inventions.

PopSci's 25 Most Awesome College Labs 2011
 
See history roll over the world. Today, the Internet Archive has released to the world an archive of all news programs on nearly every major television channel from 9/11/2001 to 9/16/2001. This exhibit, called Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive provides a grid navigation system of these many hours of footage from dozens of worldwide news programs and gives us a comprehensive overview of television's reaction to 9/11, on 9/11.

What Is Up With Noises? Math whiz Vi Hart explains the science of sound in an engaging video. 








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