Random links
- Women Earn More PhDs Than Men for First Time
- This is US data: "Women claimed 50.4 percent of PhDs awarded in the 2008-2009 academic year"
- Shift of Earth's magnetic north pole affects Tampa airport
- I'm amused to see that this sort of thing would force an airport's main runway to shut down for several days.
- 'The Social Network' has a woman problem
- The article's author talks about how poorly women in this movie were portrayed. She does notes that "there aren’t a heck of a lot of female computer science majors, period — women make up about 15 percent of top university classes in the subject, according to some estimates — and I know that regardless of percentages, it’s a fact that no women were involved in founding Facebook." For the remainder she argues that "the way the women who do exist in the film are depicted is horrendous, like, ’50s-level sexist" - yet it seems to me more the direction the culture is headed these days than those of the 1950s.
- Europe’s Young Grow Agitated Over Future Prospects
- 40% youth unemployment in Spain, 28% in Italy. Some of this seems related to demographic shifts, some to immigrations, and some possibly to over-education.