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This is kind of interesting:

Largest-ever study of same-sex couples' kids finds they're better off than other children

That the title of the study starts with the words "Parent-reported" should be your first clue that it's the same-old pot calling the kettle black when it comes to studies reaching opposite conclusions.

‘HGTV effect’ pushes home renovation spending to record $63-billion

Artificially generated needs and, of course, it's low interest rates and the accompanying rising housing prices that are fuelling the home investment bubble.

How A Lack Of Toilets Puts India's Women At Risk Of Assault

Ever thought of the potential anti-crime impact of indoor plumbing?

'Night owls' drive much worse in the morning / Morning People Are Less Ethical at Night

Some of the interesting impacts of human chronotypes

She Left, He Left: How Employment and Satisfaction Affect Men'??s and Women's Decisions to Leave Marriages

Quick summary: whether or not a wife is employment is irrelevant to whether or not a husband initiates divorce but a wife being employed heightens the odds she will initiate divorce. A husband's unemployment increases the odds of divorce - both that the wife will initiate divorce and that the husband will.

Wherein we rediscover for the millionth time that stock photos tend to crop up in reports. Here the BBC is talking about Gaza-related tweets and how some of the photos claimed to be from recent activity there are actually from past conflicts in the region or even from places like Syria instead.

Of course Gaza is far from the only place you'll see stock photos being used. e.g. in the May 2014 South Korea ferry sinkings, Fox News used footage of random sad Asians instead of actual Koreans mourning the ferry. Airline disasters are another topic that seem quite likely to use stock photography.

University offers female students extra credit for not shaving their armpits

"Student Stephanie Robinson said it was a 'life changing experience.'"

Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe for a Better Oven

How might you change an oven to make it better?

How to Stop Western Jihadis From Turning to Domestic Terrorism

"when they return looked at people from conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, and other jihadi battlefronts ... only 1 in 9 of the 945 Western foreign fighters in the sample 'returned [to their home countries] to perpetrate attacks in the West'" Is "only" really the right word?

More punk, less hell!

"An extraordinary political experiment took place in Iceland: anarchists governed the capital city of Reykjavik for four years – and the amateurs achieved some astonishing successes."