Interesting Links for 06-04-2018

Unlike rats, humans don’t produce new neurons in adulthood

(tags: adult neuroscience neurons brain )

South Korean university boycotted over ‘killer robots’

(tags: ai weaponry robots )

Outsourcing your IT continues to be a terrible idea

(tags: outsourcing software )

Giving toddlers a version of the classic Marshmallow Test

(tags: self-control children )

How to Get the Comics Backstory for Avengers: Infinity War for Less Than $20

(tags: comics marvel )

I have totally tried to get this reaction out of Loki. But without this notch success so far.

(tags: babies pregnancy video funny )

Renewable energy generated 104% of Portugal’s electricity consumption in March (Scotland lagging at 68%)

(tags: renewables portugal )

Fifty (or Sixty) Years of Processor Development…for This?

(tags: hardware processor history computers )

How Belgium is defeating the gender pay gap

(tags: Belgium pay inequality )

Teen buys every cupcake in shop after customer fat-shames her

(tags: funny fat food )

Humans produce new brain cells throughout their lives

(tags: brains neurons neuroscience viaPatrickHadfield )

Men overestimate their own intelligence and credentials, underestimate the abilities of female colleagues, making women doubt their own abilities

(tags: men women science education OhForFucksSake Intelligence )

Seven-year follow-up shows lasting cognitive gains from meditation

(tags: meditation attention psychology )

The chip credit card transition in the US has been a disaster

Because the USA hates actually regulating things, each part of the system made their own decision, leading to the worst of all possible worlds
(tags: USA banking technology fail OhForFucksSake )

How mice moms’ brains are hard-wired to gather young

(tags: brain mother parenting mice )

1,500 UK firms miss deadline to report gender pay gap

(tags: pay gender business UK OhForFucksSake )

PubGrub: Next-Generation Version Solving

This is the kind of math/logic puzzle solving which I find fascinating while also getting a headache from it.
(tags: software algorithms )

Class clowns: Playful boys viewed more negatively than playful girls

(tags: gender school behaviour )

221b Baker Street and the president of Kazakhstan’s daughter – London’s secret web of property ownership

(tags: London secrecy property money uk )

New Scottish income tax system comes into force

(tags: tax scotland )

Negative life events make men’s brains age faster

(tags: aging brain stress )