Random links
- Diet soda may do more harm than good
- "Purdue University researchers reviewed a dozen studies published in past five years that examined the relationship between consuming diet soda and health outcomes. They then published an opinion piece on their findings in the journal Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, saying they were “shocked” by the results. 'Honestly, I thought that diet soda would be marginally better compared to regular soda in terms of health,' said Susan Swithers, the report's author and a behavioral neuroscientist and professor of psychological sciences. 'But in reality it has a counterintuitive effect.'"
- Greece's Unemployed Young: A Great Depression Steals the Nation's Future
- A surprising sentence: "the government recently announced it will be laying off all university security guards, except those with a master’s degree or a Ph.D."
- It happened to me: I'm a single mom who got pregnant again on my first date in 10 years
- Two sentences that don't line up: "During that decade I relied on welfare, housing assistance, and food stamps to help me support my daughter while I earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. I was an independent woman" That's a very strange definition of independent.
- A Crime Against Gay Israelis Is a Symbol, but of What?
- "On Aug. 1, 2009, a masked gunman opened fire at the Barnoar, a center for largely closeted lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youths in Tel Aviv, killing two and wounding many others. The shooting ... was immediately deemed a hate crime ... in June, as rainbow flags flapped around the city for the annual Pride festivities, the police stunned the community when they announced that the Barnoar killers had been caught, and the investigators were no longer calling it a hate crime but rather an act of personal revenge. ... One of those arrested was the center’s director, now 50, who was accused of having a sexual relationship with a boy, then 15, whose relatives are suspected of committing the crime in response."