Random links
- Geek Apparel of the Week: Playable Tetris on Your Tie
- It might be a tie, but I wouldn't mind one of these.
- No, It's Not Sexist to Describe Women Politicians' Clothes
- An analysis of over 4000 articles found that "just 4 percent of the stories ... mentioned a candidate's appearance, and women were just as likely as men to be described in such terms."
- Whites will decline to two of five Metro residents by 2031
- "After being an overwhelming majority in Metro Vancouver up until the 1980s, whites will make up only two out of five residents by the year 2031, according to projections done for Citizenship and Immigration Canada. University of British Columbia geographer Daniel Hiebert also predicts that ethnic groups in Metro will increasingly concentrate in neighbourhood enclaves, creating a degree of racial segregation paralleled only by blacks and whites in major U.S. cities. The rate of immigration into Metro Vancouver will continue to be so rapid that, by 2031, only one out of four residents of the region will have grandparents who lived in Canada, the veteran social geographer writes in his research paper titled, A New Residential Order?" More details of the research available here.
- 9 ways that sound affects our health, wellbeing and productivity
- The ways highlighted here are all negative though I suppose there are probably some positive aspects as well.