Wednesday, November 18, 2009

11/18/09

  • More pirates.  
    • Interesting point:  "In the attack, the Alabama's crew also took evasive maneuvers and used a new technique to repel pirates: a so-called long-range acoustic device, which emits high-pitched sounds painful to the human ear."  
  • Psychology in the subway.  Some interesting tidbits. 
    • "The more justification that was offered, however, the less likely people were to stand up."
    • "Incidental touching was more likely to occur among same-race, same-sex passengers."

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