It’s Friday. It’s hot. Hopefully everyone is at the pool like I’ve been the last three days. In case you’re actually at your computer, I’ve got three things:

• Dan Ariely, behaviour economist at Duke, wants you to participate in his new study. Though he describes it as “fun”, it’s more weird than anything else but I still like to participate in these things because, when the results come out (which is apparently in two weeks), I like that there’s a little part of me in the results. Click here to go to the study.
• Here’s a description in the Guardian about the fiasco at scienceblogs.com when the site sold PepsiCo (the makers of Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Tropicana etc.) the rights to create a blog on the site about nutrition. The issue is a little dry but it really got me thinking. The bottom line is that we don’t trust a word out of corporations mouth but we buy all their stuff. Something doesn’t seem right.  More on this next week.
• Lastly, the cover feature in the new Maisonneuve asks seven music critics to write about the bands they hate with only one rule: you can’t pick Nickelback. Here’s what they did pick: Animal Collective, Broken Social Scene, Joanna Newsom, Neon Indian, Radiohead, Sonic Youth and Sufjan Stevens. Not what you expected? Unfortunately, you can only read those essays in the print issue but they have an online supplement with a couple more band-blastings in their online supplement. And one of the interns picked Pavement. “Pavement’s music isn’t that good,” he writes. Hoping he’s not an editorial intern with deep and insightful passages like that. You had it coming intern.