"When you dig into the data about where Kindles are actually bought and sold, the most "cosmopolitan" cities in America are soundly beaten by mid-sized cities in the Midwest and South. Moreover, our data suggests that dedicated e-readers aren't very popular devices anywhere."
This is, of course, Type 2 diabetes they're talking about - associated with obesity. As usual, medicine is about weighing risks and costs of various treatment options - "Though the death rate from this type of surgery is less than 1 percent, patients nonetheless have died. There were no deaths in the two studies, but there were complications, including infection, nutritional deficiencies, bone loss and surgical problems that required repeat operations."
Even there it seems that women account for a majority of college students: "According to government data, a total of 636,245 (268,080 male and 368,165 female) students were enrolled in higher education in 2006. Among them, 528,146 students (187,489 male and 340,657 female) were in Bachelor programs, 9,768 students (5,551 male and 4,217 female) were in Master programs, and 2,410 students (1,293 male and 1,117 female) were in Ph.D. programs."
A somewhat surprisingly source of violence: "In this exclusive investigative report from Montreal, Maisonneuve exposes the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal."
I'd agree with this article, although I wouldn't limit it to just women (the article touches briefly towards on the end towards this also seeming to apply to male change rooms).
The byline: "A secondary school student near Paris was accused of wearing provocative clothing and sent back home. The school thought her skirt was too long, and conveyed religious values."
"Swedish economists Mikael Elinder and Oscar Erixson crunch the numbers on shipwreck survivors and find that women and children fare the worst, while ship captains and crew members have especially high survival rates." I'm guessing that the author of a National Post article near the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, who asserted that it was oppressive towards women that men drowned while women were in lifeboats, probably won't be consistent enough to laud this broader analysis of shipwreck survival as positive for women.
”In most places in the U.S., if a parent is charged with abuse or neglect of a child and can't afford a lawyer, he's appointed one. That lawyer's job is to defend the parent and reunite the family if possible. But faced with a budget shortfall, New Hampshire has taken the unusual step of eliminating that funding.“ I’m guessing that that budget shortfall will probably grow as a result - foster care isn’t free; I’m guessing a lawyer would be cheaper.
The actual 911 call (with the originally omitted words crossed out): “Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about. Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic? Zimmerman: He looks black.” Changes the meaning a bit doesn’t it?
"The wind industry, for example, has shed 10,000 jobs since 2009 even as the energy capacity of wind farms has nearly doubled, according to the American Wind Energy Association." A lot of the labour involved in something like this seems to be more of a front-end thing... maintenance isn't as labour heavy as original building and installation it seems. The same I assume applies to hydro dams - lots of money / labour to build but not so much to maintain.
An interesting argument. "Whereas people were risk averse for gains and risk seeking for losses when choices were presented in their native tongue, they were not influenced by this framing manipulation in a foreign language. Two additional experiments show that using a foreign language reduces loss aversion, increasing the acceptance of both hypothetical and real bets with positive expected value. We propose that these effects arise because a foreign language provides greater cognitive and emotional distance than a native tongue does."
The Vatican realizes that many declared Roman Catholics ... well ... don't seem to be very Roman Catholic when it comes to their thinking and practice. Can't say that I'm shocked by this revelation. (See another more general article on Irish "Roman Catholics").
After an experiment with families eating only foods that hadn't come into contact with plastic for just three days: "The participants’ levels of bisphenol A (BPA), which is used to harden polycarbonate plastic, plunged — by two-thirds, on average — while those of the phthalate DEHP, which imparts flexibility to plastics, dropped by more than half." On DEHP, for example, the article later noted that "Studies have associated low-dose exposure to the chemical with male reproductive disorders, thyroid dysfunction and subtle behavioral changes."
"[P]oor urban neighborhoods ... not only have more fast food restaurants and convenience stores than more affluent ones, but more grocery stores, supermarkets and full-service restaurants, too. And there is no relationship between the type of food being sold in a neighborhood and obesity among its children and adolescents."
