Random links
- Legal euthanasia has not led to more cases in the Netherlands
- "While there was a slight decrease in the years after euthanasia was made legal in 2002, assisted suicide has now returned to pre-legalisation levels of around 2.8% of all deaths, the researchers from four Dutch teaching hospitals and the national statistics office CBS found. And while opponents of euthanasia had warned the legislation would lead to a sharp rise in involuntary euthanasia among terminally-ill patients, there has actually been a reduction in this sort of deaths"
- Prison population not rising despite critics’ predictions on Tories’ tough-on-crime laws: Vic Toews
- "The number of inmates in federal prisons as of June 30 stood at 14,965, Toews said, almost 3,000 below the level predicted for this year in 2009 by the Corrections Service of Canada and far below what the opposition in Parliament has been warning."
- Fracking Did Not Sully Aquifers, Limited Study Finds
- A brief excerpt of the article itself: "None of the saline water contamination correlated with the location of shale gas wells. And the results were consistent with water quality tests conducted in the 1980’s, years before hydraulic fracturing began in the area. The discovery also supports the group’s earlier findings that wells near fracking operations had elevated levels of methane but no detectable contamination from fracturing fluids or brines." The extra methane does seem like something to take note of
- Woman's call to end video game misogyny sparks vicious online attacks
- I somehow doubt you'll find a more realistic portrayal of men in the romance fiction genre (90% of whose readers are female and also the bestselling fiction genre) than you find of women in video games. One problem with the internet is that it's relatively anonymous, meaning that it's generally hard to filter out the crazies... even more so than the spammers. (Just pick a random article from any random newspaper that's got more than one or two comments and you're almost guaranteed to find a few crazy ones). It's not always crazy men making nasty comments about women - sometimes it's women making such comments - e.g. the president of the California chapter of the National Organization for Women.