Tobacco to treat cancer; decision making is tiring (who knew?); porn is not recession-proof after all…

• 1 – Whither Goest Thou, Print Short Fiction?
  John “Electric Velocipede” Klima talks reality about running a print mag.
  (tags: scale economics business print magazine genre fiction science)
• 2 – Gwyneth Jones’s top 10 science fiction by women writers
  Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: Gwyneth-Jones writers female ten top fiction science sf)
• 3 – Tobacco ‘could help treat cancer’
  “… using the plants as factories for an antibody chemical specific to the cells which cause follicular B-cell lymphoma, a type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.” Today’s serving of irony.
  (tags: cancer medicine science health tobacco)
• 4 – Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain
  “It turns out, however, that use of executive function—a talent we all rely on throughout the day—draws upon a single resource of limited capacity in the brain.” HAPPY BRAIN HAS RUN OUT OF HAPPY.
  (tags: exhaustion decisions thinking function executive neuroscience psychology)
• 5 – IMF loans ‘lead to TB deaths’
  “The team also found that death rates rose almost 1% for each percent increase in the size of the loan, and by another 4% for each year of IMF involvement.” Ouch.
  (tags: TB health spending government economics finance loans IMF)
• 6 – 25 Free Stock Photo Sites
  Does what it says on the tin; hat tip to Phil Bradley.
  (tags: webdev resource image photo stock free)
• 7 – Turns Out Porn Isn’t Recession-Proof
  “We’ve identified the reasons we think sales are down. First and foremost, there’s a glut of product. The laws of supply and demand have been turned upside down. We’re on par to put out 15,000 new releases this year, which is just insane.”
  (tags: media recession industry video pr0n economics)

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