Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Can Treating Your Life As a Game Make You a Better Person? | Popular Science

Surprising how much incentive there is inherent in earning a score for the most mundane things...
http://m.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/can-treating-your-life-game-make-you-better-person


-Tom.

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Ironically, corn syrup may have caused bee catastrophes through pesticide use - Colony Collapse Disorder - | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/silence-of-the-bees/impact-of-ccd-on-us-agriculture/37/


-Tom.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Marketing tricks in supermarkets

Shoppers buy 40% of the items in their carts from shelves that were within 12 inches of eye level.
...beware of 'bumpouts' - displays and shelves that jut out...
Shoppers who proceeded round the store clockwise spent $2 less than shoppers who went the usual counterclockwise.
Consumer Reports May '12 p. 20
-Tom.

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