Random links
- Bizarre economic indicators
- The Deslide tool used here, which converts slideshows to regular web pages is also interesting.
- Energiewende: German plans to cut carbon emissions with renewable energy are ambitious, but they are also risky
- An overview of how renewable energy is affecting the German electrical grid.
- The Rise of She: What a Shift in Gendered Pronouns Means
- An excerpt from a paper mentioned in the article: "Between 1900 and 1945, 3.5 male pronouns appeared for every female pronoun [she, her, herself, hers], increasing to 4.5 male pronouns during the postwar era of the 1950s and early 1960s. After 1968, the ratio dropped precipitously, reaching 2 male pronouns per female pronoun by the 2000s. From 1968 to 2008, the use of male pronouns decreased as female pronouns increased." To the article's explanation of what it means I'd like to add that it makes things a lot more wordy and breaks up the flow of text a fair bit to constantly put in 'he or she'...
- Runaway population growth often fuels youth-driven uprisings
- "About 80% of the world's civil conflicts since the 1970s have occurred in countries with young, fast-growing populations, known as youth bulges ... In a sluggish agrarian economy, few young men can find legitimate employment. Their lack of a steady income essentially closes the door to marriage in a society where sex outside of wedlock is forbidden. Tradition requires paying a dowry and staging a wedding celebration, which together cost as much as $5,000 — three times the average annual household income."