Random links
- India, the Rent-a-Womb Capital of the World
- Slate investigates the phenomenon: "You can outsource just about any work to India these days, including making babies. Reproductive tourism in India is now a half-a-billion-dollar-a-year industry, with surrogacy services offered in 350 clinics across the country since it was legalized in 2002. ..."
- Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime
- Sometimes it's good to get away from the electronics for a while. I think that I need to spend some time doing just that this weekend. It's been a long week.
- If one feminist is correct, the last thing the president should do is nominate a woman to the Supreme Court.
- It's the female judge whose actions the "feminist" in question was responding to that gives me hope, as opposed to the "feminist" who leaves me quite cynical. Hmn... a Slate and an anti-Slate article in the same post.
- LED light bulbs may not be magic bullet for energy savings
- Higher-efficiency devices might increase power consumption rather than reduce it. The article doesn't mention it but the effect in question is known as Jevon's Paradox.