http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Happy-Guys...in-pres-Emotion.pdf
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Hasnain says:
"Happy Guys Finish Last: The Impact of Emotion Expressions on Sexual Attraction"
I've only skimmed the paper, but the data seems interesting..
Posted on 2014-01-09T04:06:16+0000
Casbah - Imgur
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Hasnain says:
This just makes me appreciate restaurant workers even more. And hungrier.
Posted on 2014-01-08T06:09:36+0000
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/xkcd1313.ipynb
"/bu|[rn]t|[coy]e|[mtg]a|j|iso|n[hl]|[ae]d|lev|sh|[lnd]i|[po]o|ls/ matches the last names of elected US presidents but not their opponents."
The World's Best Bounty Hunter Is 4-Foot-11. Here's How She Hunts | Threat Level | Wired.com
Michelle Gomez is a genius at finding people who want to stay lost. But she'd never gone after anyone like Ryan Eugene Mullen before.
Hasnain says:
"The people Gomez chases understand that staying out of jail in the 21st century requires the ability to minimize their digital trail."
Posted on 2014-01-07T02:05:37+0000
The Secrets of White Collar Prisons | DuJour
Bernie Kerik, Jack Abramoff and Dennis Kozlowski—three of the most high-profile men to be on the inside—smash the perception that prison life is anything like
Hasnain says:
"But what I really want to know about, beyond the food and the bonding and the living in a cramped cubicle where he barely had enough room to get dressed without bumping into someone else, is what surprised him, the man who knew jails better than anyone, about prison time. What was the most shocking thing about being on the other side of the bars?"
Posted on 2014-01-06T01:47:04+0000
A Speck in the Sea
John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?
Hasnain says:
"Now, quite literally, Sosinski had lost his best friend. All day, as he stared out at the vast rolling ocean, he felt helpless and guilty. If only he’d woken up a few hours earlier, he told himself, Aldridge would have taken his shift in the bunk, and right now they’d be pulling in lobster traps together. He tried to focus all his energy on directing the commercial boats in north-south tracking lines, trying to keep all their locations straight. But none of it felt like enough."
Posted on 2014-01-06T01:39:14+0000
The Irish Clan Behind Europe's Rhino-Horn Theft Epidemic
Who could be stealing all of Europe's horns? Meet the Rathkeale Rovers
Hasnain says:
"Although powdered rhino horn pound for pound is now worth more than cocaine or heroin, the prison terms for trafficking in it are a fraction of those for the equivalent weight of narcotics. The sentence for a first-time offender smuggling a kilo of heroin in the U.S. is a minimum of 10 years in prison; according to Grace, a first-time offender smuggling a kilo of horn would get off with less than a year, and more likely a fine. “It’s a high-profit, low-risk crime,” he says."
Posted on 2014-01-06T01:28:11+0000
Degenerate, Inc.: The Paranoid and Obsessive Life of a Mid-Level Bookie
"When you win and win big, there isn't a better feeling in the world — you're on cloud fuckin' thirty-nine," Steve says as he turns on his large TV, plops down on the reclining section of his oversized leather couch and pulls a laptop close. "You want to pop bottles of champagne in the basemen...
Hasnain says:
"Anything other than that, I win," he recalls. "We lost five figures on that play; Vegas lost $100 million on that touchdown. I broke my computer after that. I threw it mostly because I had everything entered already because the chance of that happening were like one in a billion."
Posted on 2014-01-06T01:21:12+0000
Philip Guo - Silent Technical Privilege
When I first read On Technical Entitlement by Tess Rinearson in mid-2012, it resonated with me so much that I emailed her. I've been meaning to expand that original email into an article for a while now, so here goes ...
"Chinese Women, Please Don't Sleep With Foreigners"
The following is actually pretty old but like the "China Does Not Have Any Men Suitable For Me" post, it occasionally is becomes hot again and is reposted across the Chinese internet. -- Fauna On T...