Do hungry judges give harsher sentences?

Blogspam of: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/04/1... which is interesting.

The work itself is behind a paywall, but you can read some of the supporting material at http://www.pnas.org/content/suppl/2011/03/30/1018033108.DCSu... to get an idea.

I found the giant line graph problematic because of the hand waving they did to normalize when the breaks occurred during the day. It also disturbs me to see such large, high frequency variation in a line that is averaging a large number of events without explanation.