Tiny Tips

The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals “go along to get along” and maintain a status quo that includes drug company corruption, pseudoscientific research and a “standard of care” that is routinely damaging and occasionally kills young children:
http://tinyurl.com/879auco

If the federal minimum wage had been updated since 1974 using the Social Security yardstick, it would now stand at $10.74 an hour. In other words, after adjusting for inflation minimum wage workers today are paid less — about 26 percent less — than they were in 1974:
http://tinyurl.com/76zx8e3

Rape within the US military has become so widespread that it is estimated that a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be attacked by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire:
http://tinyurl.com/84dkcf8

The number of empty houses in England has risen by nearly 12,000 to stand at 662,105:
http://tinyurl.com/cfaetpv

Homeless men live to an average age of 47 while women who live rough generally die four years earlier, new figures show:
http://tinyurl.com/dy2udqj

“At one major investment bank for which I worked, we used psychometric testing to recruit social psychopaths because their characteristics exactly suited them to senior corporate finance roles.”
http://tinyurl.com/bokuq3m

She holds in even greater contempt the Islamist parties that have emerged in the first rounds of Egypt’s elections as the revolution’s biggest winners. Though a devout Muslim who covers her hair, she thinks politics and religion shouldn’t mix. The Islamists, she says, “have hijacked the revolution.” “I hate them,” she says. “The real owners of the revolution are the workers.”
http://tinyurl.com/6orel7l

With over 20 million internet users and growing fast, Pakistan has managed to secure the number one slot for searching the term ‘sex’ globally for all years:
http://tinyurl.com/7lvsdzz

Airlines’ accident risk is highest when they are performing very close to their financial targets, according to a study by a professor in BYU’s Marriott School of Management:
http://tinyurl.com/c46dma5

Software developed for closed-circuit television systems can identify individuals and track them across entire networks of cameras:
http://tinyurl.com/bw7m6k6