Random links
- Only a Mad Woman would call the 50s a golden age: No career. No mortgage. No bank account. A husband who wouldn't lift a finger. A new book says forget the nostalgia
- Oh the irony. She claims "Similarly, you would never catch a man changing or washing nappies, or even pushing a pram." Funnily enough, in the background of a photo in the article of her with her mother and brother Richard on holiday in Skegness in 1954 you find not merely one but what appears to be two men doing exactly that. (Interestingly, the majority of the Mad Men audience is female).
- Elephant, lion, tiger on Quebec highway
- Not what you see on the side of the road everyday in this country.
- Move on Oil Company Draws Praise in Argentina, Where Growth Continues
- "So many nervous citizens have taken their money out of the country that Argentina’s tax agency now uses Labrador retrievers trained to detect the ink used to print dollar bills in an effort to stanch capital flight at the airports, ferry terminal and bus terminal in Buenos Aires." The article also notes that following the nationalization, Argentina went from a net energy exporter to a net energy importer. (HT: CB)
- The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of
- The article mentions that "Scientists are a famously anonymous lot, but few can match in the depths of her perverse and unmerited obscurity the 20th-century mathematical genius Amalie Noether." Overkill? How many famous historical mathematicians can the average person name let alone tell you of their life story?
- US and UK to collaborate on 'floating' wind turbines
- "The UK and US will work together to develop "floating" wind turbines to harness more offshore wind power at a potentially lower cost." It mentions that this is for turbines "in deep waters that are currently off-limits to conventional turbines." Windspeeds are likely higher there I'd guess - not sure if this will be used for turbines closer to the shore as well.