Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
The New York Times' most popular story claims the . It explains that the basis of memory techniques is that the brain remembers visual imagery better than numbers, and erotic, exotic and exciting imagery best.
"When forming images, it helps to have a dirty mind" says 2006 United States Memory Championship in New York Joshua Foer.
"Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex -- and especially, it seems, jokes about sex."
Four police officers held a 90 minute according to the Telegraph's most read story. The piece explains restorative justice usually brings a victim and perpetrator together to talk about the incident. But in this case, was also attended by a deputy head of year and the boys' parents, ended with them apologising to the woman officer. A father of one of the boys today accused the police of wasting their time and resources and for using a "sledgehammer to crack a nut".
Naomi Wolf says in one of Al Jazeera's most popular stories that . She argues women are not merely joining protests to topple dictators, they are at the centre of demanding social change. She says in Egypt and Tunisia Muslim women acted nothing like the submissive western stereotype. Instead they were "front and centre, in news clips and on Facebook forums, and even in the leadership".
Jewish groups are rallying against a proposal to in San Francisco according to Russia Today's most popular story. Activist Lloyd Schofield says in the piece that "taking an infant and removing the most sensitive part of their body" is a human rights issue. However, the ban would face constitutional challenges as it would likely violate the First Amendment right to Freedom of Religion.
Seamus Milne predicts in one of the Guardian's most popular articles that the . He points out Mervyn King expressed surprise last week that the degree of public anger has not been greater than it has over the costs of the system's failure. He argues that spiking oil prices risk derailing recovery, but politicians cling to the failed economic model that lies behind them.
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