Sunday Seven

Virginia Tech Lesson: Rare Risks Breed Irrational Responses. An interesting Wired article about how we over-react to sensational risks and under-react to mundane ones.
Gene Research Gives Hope of Reversing Baldness. ‘Bout time. A BBC article via Slashdot.
Why Google is Making Us Dumber. I disagree with this insightful article that Google makes us dumber – it just makes us memorize less. From Mashable.
Famine Again? Why some places suffer food shortages decade after decade. From Christianity Today.
Four could reach 500-HR mark this season. Only 14 major leaguers hit 500 homers in the first 120 years of the game. Six have joined that club in the last 11 years, with Frank Thomas, ARod, Thome and Manny knocking on the door. From ESPN.
9 Attitudes of Highly Creative People. Good stuff from ProBlogger.com.
$30 Homemade Air-Conditioner. You have to replenish it with ice, but it’s a cheap temporary solution. There are two plans in this Lifehacker post – “Jeff’s” original and “Pete’s” new-and-improved.

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1 Kris10lprs // May 20, 2007 at 10:59 pm

Good luck on that gene research.
2 sumgirl // May 21, 2007 at 1:49 pm

“In its experiment, small sections of the outer skin layer, or epidermis, were removed from mice.”
i’ve never seen a mouse with male pattern baldness.
3 a la carte « the shelf // May 21, 2007 at 2:34 pm

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4 jhill // May 22, 2007 at 1:09 pm

The Virginia Tech “Securities” article was very interesting and made perfect sense. As much as I’ve dealt with the security side of the world, I have never ran into someone who thought on those lines, the lines of number, statistics and common occurring s in uncommon events! Great article
5 Steve Conley // May 23, 2007 at 8:37 am

Oh my, perhaps there’s hope after all! I might would look silly with hair now and my kids would probably say, “we liked you better bald!”

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