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Found an interesting promo video via Fast Co.LABS on what one firefighter is trying to do with Google Glass:

To Avoid Deer Strikes, Finland Is Painting Deer Antlers With Reflective Paint

An interesting alternative to painting the roads. Guessing Canada is too low-density population-wise to make this practical here.

Swiss fighters grounded during hijacking as outside office hours

"No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened outside business hours, the Swiss airforce said. ... Swiss airforce spokesman Laurent Savary told AFP ... 'Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend'"

Cleaner throws out 'rubbish' Sala Murat artwork

Ah yes... modern "art", wherein one work consisted of "cookie pieces scattered across the floor". Is this more or less artistic than a previous incident of "art" being thrown out wherein the "art" consisted of "a collection of beer bottles, coffee cups and overflowing ashtrays"?

From India, Proof That a Trip to Mars Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank

"The budget of India’s Mars mission, by contrast, was just three-quarters of the $100 million that Hollywood spent on last year’s space-based hit, 'Gravity.'"

It seems fairly well known that female athletes appear far more vulnerable than their male counterparts to certain injuries and something similar seems to be playing out at the Sochi Olympics this year. Per the New York Times:

Through Monday night, a review of the events at the [Rosa Khutor] Extreme Park counted at least 22 accidents that forced athletes out of the competition or, if on their final run, required medical attention. Of those, 16 involved women. The proportion of injuries to women is greater than it appears given that the men’s fields are generally larger.
... unlike some of the time-honored sports of risk, including Alpine skiing, luge and ski jumping, there are few concessions made for women. ... “Most of the courses are built for the big show, for the men,” said Kim Lamarre of Canada, the bronze medalist in slopestyle skiing, where the competition was delayed a few times by spectacular falls. “I think they could do more to make it safer for women.”
Compare the sports with downhill skiing, in which women have their own course, one that is shorter and less difficult to navigate. Or luge, in which female sliders start lower on the track than the men. Or ski jump, in which women were finally allowed to participate this year, but only on the smaller of the two hills. The Olympics have a history — sexist, perhaps — of trying to protect women from the perils of some sports.
But equality reigns at the Extreme Park, even to the possible detriment of the female participants.

I tend to concur with a National Review article by Heather McDonald that whatever you choose to do in this situation someone will be offended by it. Should you opt for maintaining equality in these sports - and thereby more female injuries - or begin to handicap the sports such that the courses will be less likely to injure women?

Healthier men now OUTLIVE women in many parts of England as they quit smoking and get fit in middle age

The Global Gender Gap report assumes that women SHOULD live about 6% longer than men - i.e. a country wherein men and women live equally as long would be counted as one in which women face a gender gap. Historically sex-based differences in life expectancy seems to have been impacted by childbirth related deaths. Are differences in typical gender roles in the last century or so now having a related effect?

Abba admit outrageous outfits were worn to avoid tax

"the reason for their bold fashion choices lay not just in the pop glamour of the late 70s and early 80s, but also in the Swedish tax code. According to Abba: The Official Photo Book ... the band's style was influenced in part by laws that allowed the cost of outfits to be deducted against tax – so long as the costumes were so outrageous they could not possibly be worn on the street."

Goldman Handed Out Cosmetic Mirrors and Nail Files at Women’s Coding Event

I don't have a problem with this. I've heard complaints about conferences before where, e.g., t-shirts only come in male sizes. That said I'm going to guess that someone will object by claiming that it contributes to the objectification of women's appearances.

Conservative MP Rob Anders seeks return of 'rape' as a distinct crime, along with harsher penalties

Only "sexual assault" exists in there at the moment. It seems to me that to a certain extent the boy-who-cried-wolf phenomena applies here - "When the language of sexual assault is used ... we can deny violence against women by saying "Well, for all we know he bumped up against her accidentally in the elevator."'" There's a lot of stuff that studies in this area classify as rape or sexual assault that relatively few would be likely to recognize as such.