• Quantified Spouse
• Downsides of treadmill workstations. The biggest problem I had with my office treadmill workstation was that it made too much noise. It was also very tiring.
• Anticipation of interaction with a woman reduces men’s cognitive performance
• Look back at Is There No Place on Earth For Me?, a profile of a schizophrenic woman by Susan Sheehan
• Why do Finnish students do so well on PISA (an international comparison)? Finnish students do much better than Norwegian students even though the two countries are quite similar.

Thanks to Phil Alexander, Vic Sarjoo, and Navanit Arakeri.

• The spread of self-tracking.
• Sitting down and getting up from floor test predicts longevity. Your score depends on how much support you need. “[The correlation with mortality] persisted when results were controlled for age, gender and body mass index, suggesting that the sitting-rising test score is a significant predictor of all-cause mortality; indeed, subjects in the [lowest] score range [score 0-3] had a 5-6 times higher risk of death than those in the reference group [score 8-10].”
• Psychiatric diagnoses, such as depression, widened by psychiatrists who take money from drug companies. One psychiatrist “was skeptical of efforts to reduce the financial ties to industry.“It has gotten to be a witch hunt,” he said.“Most academics have taken money from pharma if they’re successful,” he explained.”

Thanks to Alex Chernavsky and Tim Beneke.