News of the day
Old news again, but news to me, and nifty: Florida DOT is offering an "Emergency Ride Home" program to non-car commuters -- commuters that register with them can get up to six free cab rides per month.
British study finds that college men rate "normal"-weight women as more attractive and healthier than underweight women. (Putting "normal" in quotes since they don't say what the researchers used to judge that.)
Kenya to attempt to take a census of its gay population. They say it's for the purpose of bettering HIV prevention and treatment. On the other hand, homosexuality is illegal in Kenya, and HIV status is heavily stigmatized, so sentences like "[The head of Kenya's AIDs prevention program] said the survey would involve gay men identifying each other, and officials carrying out HIV tests" can't be reassuring to gay Kenyans.
Bidding on trip to South Africa offered in a charity auction by Charlize Theron went up by $100,000 when she added a kiss into the package. Oh, and she also promised a meeting with Nelson Mandela without asking him first.
The BBC looks at prejudice against fat people. Warning for kcatalyst: one of the comments calls fattism "the last acceptable prejudice". ;-)
The creator of the Kamatari Damacy game is designing a kids' playground in Nottingham.
The head of Britain's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has said that the government ignored their advice when reclassifying marijuana and ecstasy to higher regulatory categories. "In his lecture and briefing paper, entitled Estimating Drug Harms: A Risky Business?, he repeated his claim that the risks of taking ecstasy are no worse than riding a horse." Sadly, the man in question is named Professor Nutt, which can't be helping his credibility. ;-)
Doctors in Britain are reviewing guidelines for the treatment of people under 18 with gender dysphoria. The key item under discussion is using drugs to block the onset of puberty, thereby giving transgendered youth a longer time to mature and develop their gender identity.
A new report says that roughly 8% of Canada's citizenry is living abroad permanently. It estimates that we're a million strong in the US. That means that there are more Canadians in the US than there are Delawareans, South or North Dakotans, Alaskans, or Vermonters.
The final House healthcare bill has been unveiled (this is the bill that will go head-to-head with whatever gets passed by the Senate). It will include negotiated, not pre-set, rates for paying doctors and hospitals.
Schwarzenegger embeds message "Fuck you" into a veto statement using the first letter of each line.
And here's where misinformation and unsubstantiated fear cause people to die: Refusal to use adjuvants is one of the major reasons for a massive shortage of H1N1 vaccine in the US.
Roy DeCarava, acclaimed Harlem photographer, has died.
NYT Magazine article on the Obamas' marriage. (Haven't had time to read this one yet.)
British study finds that college men rate "normal"-weight women as more attractive and healthier than underweight women. (Putting "normal" in quotes since they don't say what the researchers used to judge that.)
Kenya to attempt to take a census of its gay population. They say it's for the purpose of bettering HIV prevention and treatment. On the other hand, homosexuality is illegal in Kenya, and HIV status is heavily stigmatized, so sentences like "[The head of Kenya's AIDs prevention program] said the survey would involve gay men identifying each other, and officials carrying out HIV tests" can't be reassuring to gay Kenyans.
Bidding on trip to South Africa offered in a charity auction by Charlize Theron went up by $100,000 when she added a kiss into the package. Oh, and she also promised a meeting with Nelson Mandela without asking him first.
The BBC looks at prejudice against fat people. Warning for kcatalyst: one of the comments calls fattism "the last acceptable prejudice". ;-)
The creator of the Kamatari Damacy game is designing a kids' playground in Nottingham.
The head of Britain's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has said that the government ignored their advice when reclassifying marijuana and ecstasy to higher regulatory categories. "In his lecture and briefing paper, entitled Estimating Drug Harms: A Risky Business?, he repeated his claim that the risks of taking ecstasy are no worse than riding a horse." Sadly, the man in question is named Professor Nutt, which can't be helping his credibility. ;-)
Doctors in Britain are reviewing guidelines for the treatment of people under 18 with gender dysphoria. The key item under discussion is using drugs to block the onset of puberty, thereby giving transgendered youth a longer time to mature and develop their gender identity.
A new report says that roughly 8% of Canada's citizenry is living abroad permanently. It estimates that we're a million strong in the US. That means that there are more Canadians in the US than there are Delawareans, South or North Dakotans, Alaskans, or Vermonters.
The final House healthcare bill has been unveiled (this is the bill that will go head-to-head with whatever gets passed by the Senate). It will include negotiated, not pre-set, rates for paying doctors and hospitals.
Schwarzenegger embeds message "Fuck you" into a veto statement using the first letter of each line.
And here's where misinformation and unsubstantiated fear cause people to die: Refusal to use adjuvants is one of the major reasons for a massive shortage of H1N1 vaccine in the US.
Roy DeCarava, acclaimed Harlem photographer, has died.
NYT Magazine article on the Obamas' marriage. (Haven't had time to read this one yet.)