Saturday, July 26, 2014

Weekend Links

The High-Heel Hottie Effect: The Evolutionary Psychology of Women’s Shoes http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2014/07/23/the-high-heel-hottie-effect-the-evolutionary-psychology-of-womens-shoes/ …
How the Other Half Works: an Adventure in the Low Status of Software Engineers http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-other-half-works-an-adventure-in-the-low-status-of-software-engineers/?src=longreads …
Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/07/why-poor-schools-cant-win-at-standardized-testing/374287/?src=longreads …
Lunch with the FT: Vikram Pandit http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/e4f1c550-0762-11e4-81c6-00144feab7de.html#axzz38Rm94SHP …
“Burger King Is Run by Children” — http://ift.tt/1pfzHzq (Businessweek)
I'm Ira Glass, Host of This American Life, and This Is How I Work http://lifehacker.com/im-ira-glass-host-of-this-american-life-and-this-is-h-1609562031 …
Does This Make Me Sound Insecure? http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/07/insecurity_in_language_psychology_of_how_words_reveal_self_doubt.single.html …
Don't Send Your Kid to the Ivy League http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118747/ivy-league-schools-are-overrated-send-your-kids-elsewhere …
Ask the Sexpert: The 90-year-old sex guru http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28353027 …
Off my table, you damn Carnivore! http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/living/off-my-table-you-damn-
The twenty stories in 60 minutes podcast : http://feeds.thisamericanlife.org/talpodcast