Links to Your World, Tuesday March 6

Time magazine explains why affirmative action at the University of Texas has the opposite effect the university intends.

 

Since customers can leave their own reviews of Amazon products, the results can be hilarious. Here's another of Fast Company's Top 10 Amazon reviews. I liked "Knitting with Dog Hair" and the inflatable basted turkey.

 

Gamers will pay poor people to play video games as their proxies in order to move through the lower, more repetitive levels more quickly. Here's the story.

 

Trusting your feelings, Luke.

 

The WSJ introduces the nation to Fred Luter, Jr., the African-American pastor who is likely to become the Southern Baptist Convention's next president.

 

They're calling it "after-birth abortion" and they say that anyone who opposes it is a "fanatic." If you're pro-choice but say a mother's choice ends at birth, explain.

 

Related: Doctors and the public may pull back from "after-birth abortion" for now. But "selective abortion" is practiced regularly in the world of IVF. This father explains what "selective abortion" really is. Heart-rending stuff to read.

 

Jerusalem Syndrome is a psychiatric disorder that "affects an estimated 50 to 100 tourists each year....Severe cases can lead otherwise normal housewives from Dallas or healthy tool-and-die manufacturers from Toledo to hear the voices of angels or fashion the bedsheets of their hotel rooms into makeshift togas and disappear into the Old City babbling prophecy." Most of the cases have had psychiatric breaks in the past. (Wired)

 

If you still think the battle line in our culture wars is drawn between "religious" people and "secular" people, you're not paying attention. The line is between conservative religious people and progressive religious people.

 

"A 10-minute review of a Facebook profile can give a hiring manager clues about your personality type and insights as to how you’ll fit into the company’s work (or not) and succeed on the job (or not). It’s no surprise, then, that more employers are reviewing Facebook profiles when screening potential new hires. The trick for job seekers is to make sure they’re presenting their best, most employable self on Facebook. Dan Shawbel for Time's Moneyland explans how to do that.

 

A 7,000-word Sports Illustrated story on the rise of Baylor sports? Yes, please.