links for 2007-07-18

• Persuasive Games
  new book on how video games create procedural rhetoric and how they can mean
  (tags: media video_games)
• an interview about simplicity in design
  john maedea interview via metacool
  (tags: design)
• inhibiting an enyzme causes mice to forget long term fears
  yeah they figured out the neurological connection between long term phobias, memory, and eating stuff.
  (tags: medicine neurology fear)
• stuff lacking from a vegetarian diet
  iodine, zinc, iron, B12
  (tags: vegetarian diet)
• la gets nudity laws
  “Young females in their early teens” were subject to seeing Ferreira “moving his hips from side to side,” Small said. “To be confronted with a naked man is shocking for everyone.” Once the site of a near woodstock concert, ageing hippies are upset at a ma
  (tags: nudity politics california)
• on iq, genetics, etc.
  did you know that accent is highly correleated with location, class, race, parents, etc?
  (tags: philosophy learning language intelligence genetics fun education science)
• Aspects of Symnetry
  (tags: science math quantum)
• on the ol yang whatever fields
  it’s like about quantum mechanics and stuff
  (tags: science quantum)