Predictably Irrational

An interesting site:
Predictably Irrational

PhD Comics

www.phdcomics.com

The Chart Wars

From Target Point:

TargetPoint's VP and Director of Research, Alex Lundry, was recently a featured speaker at DC Ignite, an evening of short presentations in which participants are limited to 5 minutes and precisely 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds.

The title of his talk is Chart Wars: The Political Power of Data Visualization, and you can view it here Chart Wars

Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged

A German computer engineer said Monday that he had cracked the secret code used to encrypt most of the world's mobile phone calls:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/technology/29hack.html?_r=1

Statistical plots on-line

http://yeroon.net/ggplot2/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_haIgb4nFFY&hd=1

The great Baby Einstein scam

Remember the articles I mentioned in this Post.
I receive more information about this subject related with a big company:
Baby Einstein and what they say.

Prevalence of Mental Illness in Immigrant and Non-Immigrant U.S. Latino Groups

From The American Journal of Psychiatry:
Although widely reported among Latino populations, contradictory evidence exists regarding the generalizability of the immigrant paradox, i.e., that foreign nativity protects against psychiatric disorders. The authors examined whether this paradox applies to all Latino groups by comparing estimates of lifetime psychiatric disorders among immigrant Latino subjects, U.S-born Latino subjects, and non-Latino white subjects.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/165/3/359