Random links
- Foster children have grim prospects
- Once they age out of the system they fair even worse than the children of
single divorced mothers (Kids raised by widows do better than those raised by divorcees).
- Evil Clown hired for stalking, threats and a pie in the face
- The byline: "An 'evil' clown who stalks and threatens kids is being hired by parents as a birthday treat."
- Markets, Risk, and Fashion: The Hindenburg’s Smoking Lounge
- One interesting comment: "The Zeppelin company originally preferred the cheaper and more readily obtainable hydrogen, but after 48 of 56 passengers on a British airship were killed in a storm in 1930, Zeppelin’s engineers planned the new design for the safer, nonflammable helium. Unfortunately for Zeppelin, Congress had passed a law in 1927 banning the export of helium because it was a strategic gas with military aviation potential. There was thus no alternative to hydrogen, despite its risks."
- Political Polarization: In the Eye of the Beholder?
- "According to a new study, the people who most strongly believe that the political system is dividing into two extreme camps with little to say to each other themselves have relatively extreme views."
- The disadvantage of an elite education
- Loosely summarized as snobbery, selecting for only a particular type of intelligence, fear of failure, and an implicitly class-based division of society. (The author of this piece, BTW, apparently spent a decade as a professor at Yale).