They really seem to be speaking of a niquab rather than a hijab, but I suppose that's a bit of a nitpicky point. I wonder how this is handled in the Muslim world.
A look at some of what might be the next generation of Israeli airport security - perhaps also coming soon to an airport near you. Looks like it might be a little bit quicker than what's there now.
A BBC piece looking at the impacts of fathers on their daughters. It looks both at the pace of maturation in girls when fathers are around or absent as well as at some of the similarities between husbands women select and their fathers even in terms of physical appearance. That's a little bit freaky in a way:
The growth of small-scale power systems in Africa - typically based off some form of renewables. A lot easier to get going than to build a grid. (Which is also one of the reasons why you might expect to find better cell service in the third world than Canada.)
"Children's advocates, pediatricians and prosecutors say kids rarely lie about sexual abuse, and it is crucial their allegations aren't greeted with the dismissive skepticism that has stigmatized sexual assault victims." ... of course, although there is some controversy about these figures, rape has a high-level of false reporting.
I suppose that this is somewhat related to the previous story, this one looking at the results of a crackdown aimed at pedophiles: "the evidence now shows that many of those convicted weren’t paedophiles at all. They were victims of straightforward online credit card fraud." How much evidence do you need?
According to an editorial about to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine "Studies have found a near doubling in the risk of complications, such as massive hemorrhage or organ injury when surgeons pick up a scalpel after a night on call if they got fewer than six hours of sleep."
Looks like they've discovered that in the area of the BP oil spill it wasn't so much oil harming the local turtle population as it was fishing activity.
A new approach to wireless internet: "Flickering ceiling lights are usually a nuisance, but in city offices in St. Cloud, they will actually be a pathway to the Internet. The lights will transmit data to specially equipped computers on desks below by flickering faster than the eye can see." Basically it's fibre-optics minus the fibre, but here this seems to be getting addressed in a non-directional fashion.
A somewhat surreal look at a program attempting to get fathers in jail to record themselves reading to their kids... "These days, Mr. Rosado is reading 'Fox in Socks' and 'Hop on Pop' and 'Clifford y la Hora del Baño.' Juan Camacho, 35, a drug dealer and father of two, is partial to 'The Cat in the Hat' (though he says he did not like the movie as much because 'it doesn’t have the same rhyming, the classic of it'). And Qaaid Reddick, 27, who has never met his third daughter because she was born while he was behind bars on a weapons charge, is paging through 'Merry Christmas, Curious George.'"
