Random links
- Ontario Education Minister: Catholic schools can’t teach abortion is wrong - that’s ‘misogyny’
- Note that in Ontario, these are public schools - not private ones.
- What Would a Starship Actually Look Like?
- "Science fiction likes to imagine interstellar vehicles as sleek, aerodynamic ships. But there’s no air in space, and voyaging to the stars will require something that looks much different than an oversized jet."
- The Wages of Sin: How the Discovery of Penicillin Reshaped Modern Sexuality.
- "It was not until 1943, amid world war, that penicillin was found to be an effective treatment for syphilis. This study investigated the hypothesis that a decrease in the cost of syphilis due to penicillin spurred an increase in risky non-traditional sex. ... Regression analysis demonstrated that most measures of sexual behavior significantly increased immediately following the collapse of syphilis and most measures were significantly associated with the syphilis death rate."
- A Swedish Lesson For Ed Balls
- A anti-socialist take on the direction of the Swedish government over the course of the last 20 years are so. Are the Nordic countries becoming more libertarian and less socialist over time?