According to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a sample of eight judges was 65% likely to parole prison inmates at the beginning of a session or directly after lunch, but increasingly unlikely to do so over time to the point that the judges are almost 0% likely to grant parole before lunch.
"Hungry judges dispense rough justice" [Nature.com] by Zoë Corbyn (April 11, 2011)
"Supporting Information: Danziger et al. 10.1073/pnas.1018033108" and the abstract of "Extraneous factors in judicial decisions" [PNAS]
Monday 11 April 2011
Not Transiting in Transit
What it's like to be one of 28 people stuck in a New York subway elevator for over an hour.
"The Horror of Being Trapped in a Subway Elevator" [Gawker], by Brian Moylan (April 11, 2011)
"The Horror of Being Trapped in a Subway Elevator" [Gawker], by Brian Moylan (April 11, 2011)
A Divided Commemoration of Polish/Russian Plane Crash
In Warsaw there were two conflicting ceremonies yesterday for those who died on April 10th, 2010, when an airplane carrying Poland's president and his wife, scholars, legislators, military, and others crashed in Smolensk, Russia. Tensions are being fed by the question of blame and the revived history of distrust regarding the country's neighbour to the east.
Commemorating Smolensk: A nation divided [Economist] by G.C. (April 11, 2011)
Commemorating Smolensk: A nation divided [Economist] by G.C. (April 11, 2011)
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