More random links
- The Kindle Index: What City Buys the Most E-Readers?
- "When you dig into the data about where Kindles are actually bought and sold, the most "cosmopolitan" cities in America are soundly beaten by mid-sized cities in the Midwest and South. Moreover, our data suggests that dedicated e-readers aren't very popular devices anywhere."
- A New East Asian Import: Ozone Pollution
- Apparently this may account for up to 20% of ozone in California
- Surgery for Diabetes May Be Better Than Standard Treatment
- This is, of course, Type 2 diabetes they're talking about - associated with obesity. As usual, medicine is about weighing risks and costs of various treatment options - "Though the death rate from this type of surgery is less than 1 percent, patients nonetheless have died. There were no deaths in the two studies, but there were complications, including infection, nutritional deficiencies, bone loss and surgical problems that required repeat operations."
- Education in Saudi Arabia
- Even there it seems that women account for a majority of college students: "According to government data, a total of 636,245 (268,080 male and 368,165 female) students were enrolled in higher education in 2006. Among them, 528,146 students (187,489 male and 340,657 female) were in Bachelor programs, 9,768 students (5,551 male and 4,217 female) were in Master programs, and 2,410 students (1,293 male and 1,117 female) were in Ph.D. programs."
- Getting plowed
- A somewhat surprisingly source of violence: "In this exclusive investigative report from Montreal, Maisonneuve exposes the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal."