Random links
- Birth Fathers: Trans Parenthood Tests Berlin Authorities
- Someone failed biology. "the trans man, despite the pregnancy and childbirth, wants to be recorded on the birth certificate as the father and not the mother, 'because, as he states, he is in fact not the woman who gave birth to the child, but a man,' the internal memo reads."
- MetaPhone: The Sensitivity of Telephone Metadata
- "At the outset of this study, we shared the same hypothesis as our computer science colleagues—we thought phone metadata could be very sensitive. We did not anticipate finding much evidence one way or the other, however, since the MetaPhone participant population is small and participants only provide a few months of phone activity on average. We were wrong. We found that phone metadata is unambiguously sensitive, even in a small population and over a short time window. We were able to infer medical conditions, firearm ownership, and more, using solely phone metadata."
- China working on uranium-free nuclear plants in attempt to combat smog
- Seems like China is significantly cranking up the pressure to build full-scale lithium nuclear powerplants. They've got significant advantages over current nuclear plants.
- Women get the vote
- From the UK: "Only 58% of the adult male population was eligible to vote before 1918." It took the law banning soldiers in WW1 from voting to change the state of the law. Aristocracy or patriarchy?