"Several of Tesla’s giant competitors have made decent forays into electric vehicles, whether hybrid or fully battery-powered. But the Model S is in a different class. The sleek new sedan has space for up to seven. It’s fast, with some versions speeding from zero to 60 miles an hour in about four seconds. It’s full of the latest gadgets, from a 17-inch touch-screen control panel to automatically retracting door handles. And it can travel as far as 300 miles on one charge, and be ready to go again after 30 minutes plugged into a high-power charging station." Still $50,000 for the base model, but this seems like quite an improvement for electric cars and one that seems to be garnering the company awards.
On the claim that women own only 1% of the world's property: "That thing you might have heard, about women's work, income and property ownership -- it's not true. (And yes, I really am a feminist.)"
"It's odd and troubling that the best-selling evangelical book of the past decade is a fanciful account of heaven spun from the imagination of a four-year-old boy... Blogger Tim Challies has labeled the genre 'Heaven Tourism,' candidly dismissing one bestseller in the category as 'pure junk, fiction in the guise of biography, paganism in the guise of Christianity.'"
" Lada Adamic ... and her team have come up with an algorithm to guess how successful a recipe will turn out. And the math works surprisingly well. It predicts with nearly 80 percent accuracy how many stars your mother's cranberry recipe will receive on allrecipes.com. Plus, it can recommend ingredient replacements to make your pie crust and potatoes more healthful."
"Divorce rates are far higher among “modern” couples who share the housework than in those where the woman does the lion’s share of the chores, a Norwegian study has found." - far higher here translates to 50% higher.
Defense Department spending included "$100,000 for a 2011 workshop on interstellar space travel that included a session entitled "Did Jesus die for Klingons too?" The session probed how Christian theology would apply in the event of the discovery of aliens."
"So Spain is offering a deal. Buy a house worth more than the mean home price and receive something that had been, until now, priceless: Spanish residency papers." Doesn't strike me as a terrible idea. You'd probably want to ensure that the person in question lives in the house as well for avoid foreign slumlords.
