Random links
- Federal study suggests moving EI recipients to areas with more jobs
- Incentivizing people to move towards where work is seems like a good idea to me. The comments on the story are a little bizarre though - saying that this reeks of communism, demanding instead more government payments to idle workers. The comments section also seems to suggest that the corporations are exploiting people and should pay - neglecting to mention that oil companies already spend massive amounts on transporting workers around and that Fort McMurray, where much of the oilsands are, has the highest household income in Canada.
- Woman Fired For Eating 'Unclean' Meat
- From Florida: "Morales, who is Catholic, was warned about eating pizza with meat the Muslim faith considered "unclean.," Local 6 News reported. She was then fire[d] for eating a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, according to the report."
- How Women Can Get Ahead: Advice From Female CEOs
- "So I went to the 18 women who are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies ... and asked their opinion. What factors, personal or in the workplace, fueled their careers and what myths about the advancement of women did they encounter along the way? Eleven gave their thoughts. ..." - the key seems to be ignoring most feminist claims.
- Mayo v. Prometheus: Natural Process + Known Elements = Normally No Patent
- "A unanimous (9–0) Supreme Court has held that the personalized medicine dosing process invented by Prometheus is not eligible for patent protection because the process is effectively an unpatentable law of nature. This decision reverses the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's holding that the claims were patentable because they included substantial physical limitations." Some mild indication of sanity for the patent process? (i.e. arguing essentially that the human genome can't be patented)
- Who gets to keep Fluffy? Giles Hattersley on the rise of gay divorce
- ”The most recent findings of the Office for National Statistics showed in 2010 that 5.5% of heterosexual marriages ended in divorce after four years, while only 2.5% of a total of 42,778 civil partnerships in the same period were dissolved. This number is perhaps skewed by the fact that some gay couples had been living together for decades before they were allowed to tie the knot. Still, as we approach the seventh anniversary of civil partnerships— and the seven-year itch — intriguing questions arise. Why, for example, are only 44% of civil partnerships entered into by women, but lesbians file for 62% of dissolutions ...?”