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As rioting increases, so do Amazon bat sales.
At first glance, I am a little surprised at the popularity of the bats. I guess I would have thought cricket bats were the preferred method of self-defense (or tool of anarchy depending on who you ask). It could be that bats just don’t sell a lot in the UK relative to cricket bats and while both have spiked in sales, the denominator is just lower for bats. I guess they might also just be cheaper.
(via The Atlantic)
Ars Technica wrote a brief article outlining a recent publication by Professor David Hemenway about gun control–the forbidden and perpetually sensitive topic in America.
The last line of the 7th paragraph instructs readers to say “bananas” in their comments if they’ve read that far. The first comment to mention bananas was over two pages into the comments section. Hilarious.
Via Dr. Ben Goldacre (of Bad Science)–both of which you should have in your RSS reader.
I’m a bit of a Quantified Self’er, but this is truly impressive: Atlas of the Habitual