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- There are 350,000 Canadians Living and Working Silicon Valley Right Now
- "There are just over 34 million people in Canada. Down in Silicon Valley, there are another 350,000. That's right—an amount equal to more than one percent of our entire country's population is living and working in a single dot on the map in America."
- Swedish street signs axed over 'perky' breasts
- I'm not quite sure what to say...
- Cultural Inequality and the Church
- Interesting: "The General Social Survey, which measures American values and attitudes, finds that the share of those who profess no religion or who go to religious services no more than once a year has increased at both ends of the economic and social spectrums. In the ’70s, 29 percent of the more affluent group fell into the secular category, increasing to 40 percent by 2010. But the strongest secularization trend is among the working classes, growing from 38 percent about four decades ago to a whopping 59 percent two years ago." Given that 40 < 59, that would seem to suggest that on average the more educated and more affluent are now somewhat more likely to fall into the "religious" category than their counterparts.
- How The Creator of CAPTCHA Will Translate The Entire Internet
- Seems interesting. They seem to be in beta testing now - concentrating on Spanish and German for the moment. A few other languages also listed as on the way...
- Revealed: How atheist Richard Dawkins' family fortune came from the slave trade
- I think I'll side with Dawkins on this: "I condemn slavery with the utmost vehemence, but the fact that my remote ancestors may have been involved in it is nothing to do with me." I'm just wondering if he's consistent in some of the historical claims he makes, although philosophical descent vs. biological descent is also a bit different.