Random links
- How to bring Canada’s sky-high air fares back to earth
- "domestic air travel in Canada, measured by passenger miles flown per-capita, is only about 40 per cent of the corresponding U.S. level. This is especially surprising given that Canadian cities are generally further apart than are U.S. cities; if anything, we should be flying more than Americans, for whom driving is often a feasible alternative."
- Give War a Chance
- A fairly interesting journal article on how multinational peacekeeping / NGO efforts are often ineffective or can make the long-term situation worse.
- ‘Real men wear kilts’.. The anecdotal evidence that wearing a Scottish kilt has influence on reproductive potential: how much is true?
- "Methods and results: Analysis of literature concerning scrotal temperature and spermatogenesis and fertility. Wearing a Scottish kilt in a traditional (‘regimental’) way may have clear health-related benefits. Kilt wearing likely produces an ideal physiological scrotal environment, which in turn helps maintain normal scrotal temperature, which is known to be beneficial for robust spermatogenesis and good sperm quality."
- Filler (linguistics)
- What sounds / words get used as filler in different languages