Random links
- FBI surrounds house of Saudi student following sightings of him with pressure cooker pot, only to find he was cooking rice
- In related news another Saudi guy was arrested at an airport with a pressure cooker - seems like he may have lied about a few things, but this one also didn't seem to be rigged as a bomb.
- Canada to lift moratorium on parent, grandparent immigration
- It'd be difficult to justify not doing this. Unfortunately, it's also a reason why immigration doesn't really seem to be a solution to the population aging problem.
- Young Adults With Autism Can Thrive In High-Tech Jobs
- To quote neurologist Patricia Evans: "They may really flourish at engineering-type tasks or computer design, where their interaction with people is somewhat limited." Here by autism they seem to mean Aspergers Syndrome. This seems a somewhat more reasonable characterization of much engineering-type work than insisting that such employment involves as much face-to-face communications as any other job - i.e. what I typically see from organizations trying to get more women interested in the field (where I'd argue emphasizing flex-time would probably be a much better approach).
- People with disabilities are more likely to get divorced
- This might not be what you want to hear, but does indeed seem to be true. (I alternately find this blog interesting, providing evidence that I haven't found elsewhere, and at other times extremely annoying and more than a little biased).