More random links
- 'Ban the vuvuzela', says WHO expert on deafness
- I'd definitely appreciate it along with banning "deliberate attempts to increase stadium noise" to reach the maximum possible decibel rating.
- Save the Honeybee, Sterilize the Earth
- On issues of unhealthy bees: "The reality of colony collapse disorder, researchers now believe, is that there is no single culprit. Bees are falling victim to several overlapping forces that Jeff Pettis, a USDA researcher, calls “the three Ps”: pesticides, poor nutrition, and pests." An interesting comment which makes sense but I never thought of: "pollinating a crop like almonds, which provide abundant and nutritious pollen, is “like living on nothing but broccoli”—in other words, not a balanced diet"
- Mountie Takes Aboriginal Woman Home From Jail Cell To Pursue Relationship
- "RCMP Const. Kevin Theriault took an intoxicated woman he had arrested out of a cell and drove her to his northern Manitoba home to pursue a personal relationship" - a week's pay seems like a bit of a light sentence. At least here it was other RCMP officers who monitored and reported the situation, stopping it before it got worse.
- Facebook Adds New Gender Option for Users: Fill in the Blank
- 58 options just wasn't enough. In related news, the alphabet soup of identity label descriptor is now up to LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM.