Recent links I liked:
Why Twitter Makes Us Want to Add Extra Letterssss & How long is a tweet string? - answering the important questions of our time.
Ageing and productivity: Economists and others. Given we are all going to have to work for longer it's good to know the older folk can keep up.
The evolution of Consciousness: Part 2
Alcohol consumption higher than reported in England. Here we go again. The report is behind a paywall so I cannot check whether they have addressed the questions of how much is consumed by visitors to Britain, how much by people who do not live in private households, & how much by those who are too drunk to co-operate with social survey interviewers.
A Closer Look at College Completion Rates for Full-Time Students: A new American study, for example, finds that men are less willing to tolerate loan debt than women are. Which may mean that girls in the majority at college may not be the all-round good thing we might like to take it for.
Multilingual dictionary keeps humans in the loop - At a (biggggg) price
