Antique engines inspire nano chip

Russians to dive below North Pole for, of course, altruistic and humanitarian reasons relating to the advancement of knowledge.

Heh. Perils of opening up your API, I suppose. I've never been on Facebook, tbh.

UK gender equality 'long way off'

I just don't get this. What's so hard about forcing companies to pay an equal wage? Am I terribly naïf here?

Buhffly.

Scientists map elephant evolution

Arctic diary: Tracking wolves

Boring splurge of my innermost weaknesses for great boredom!

I played this game as a result of someone dissing the Myer-Briggs model, and incidentally I fully agree with all the criticisms expressed, and think astrology and younger personality-quiz memes are bunk too. When I want to oversimplify and categorise people, whether for amusement, what-ifs or seeking a new angle on things, I generally make up my own categories. More fun. Nevertheless, other people's categories are interesting in a number of ways — they're just not accurate models of reality.

(Oh, by the way, if there's someone feeling left out because I didn't dis their chosen methods of divination and/or personality pigeonholing, please take it as read that I think it's bunk, and would never say so in those terms on your blog unless invited to give my opinion.)

This one gave some interesting results, though not much I didn't already know. Throughout the test I was correctly predicting areas where I knew it would misclassify me because of the wording of the questions or categorisation of the scoring. My notes follow the (long) results.

edit: graphs are still page-breaking, but at least don't wrap wrongly — may fix further later

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