- The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 million lines - wow, a lot of work went into this! And the results are: so depressing. Obviously this isn't a perfect way of looking at how major female characters are, but it definitely says a lot. (somehow 75% of the words in Mulan are spoken by men?) And ( Read more... )

- Most anti-gay city? What Twitter shows about tolerance in America - interesting results, as I wouldn't have expected Wyoming and Montana to be the most tolerant states. But there's probably some bias based on who from those states is on Twitter. Also, those states may be more homogeneous than most, and I think there's some evidence that you're ( Read more... )

Hello from India! I'm here for another week, and I've been posting a few pictures as I go (real post with pictures coming later)

- Obamacare Has Insured 20 Million People - just a reminder that Obamacare is basically working!

- J.J. Abrams created a hiring system that considers women and minorities in proportion to the US population - wow!

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I was going to separate these into politics and non-politics links, but it turns out most of them would have been in the politics category (depending how broadly you define "politics"). So: nevermind!

- How Tim Cook, in iPhone Battle, Became a Bulwark for Digital Privacy - I am honestly a little torn about this whole thing, but it's nice to see ( Read more... )

- If you like Bernie Sanders, you’ll love this other longtime progressive - spoiler alert: it's Hillary! I appreciate that Bernie has brought some issues to the surface, but he just doesn't seem like a serious candidate to me; she's now attacking him as a one issue candidate, which rings fairly true to me ( Read more... )

- Apparently many new Star Wars toys don't include Rey on purpose because boys don't like girls and aaaaaaaa everything is terrible.

- The Threat Is Already Inside (and nine other truths about terrorism that nobody wants to hear) - good reminders to keep things in perspective (thanks David!)

- Can The Best Financial Tips Fit On An Index Card? - I ( Read more... )

- The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom - I found this pretty surprising.

- What Was Volkswagen Thinking? On the origins of corporate evil-and idiocy - indeed

- In Defense Of Food Stamps: Why The White House Sings SNAP's Praises - because it reduces poverty!

- Is Uber ripping off its drivers? The woman who beat Starbucks and FedEx in ( Read more... )

- José y Maria - very striking image!

- All Politicians Lie. Some Lie More Than Others. - even discounting Donald Trump and Ben Carson (because: wow), it's striking that all the Republicans have a higher percentage of false statements than all (but one) of the Democrats. Obviously there's some margin of error here and you can argue some ( Read more... )

- The Beggar CEO and Sucker Culture - so good!

- You Can't Understand American Politics Without Reading This Study - this study about rising middle-age white mortality has been out for a little while, but it's so surprising and scary it's hard to know what to make of it, other than it's very bad. (and may partially explain the appeal of people ( Read more... )

- Unfollow: How a prized daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church came to question its beliefs - wow, a very interesting and mostly uplifting story!

- The Doomsday Scam - long article about "red mercury", which is supposedly a chemical that can produce a nuclear-like explosion, and a bunch of other outlandish things. But terrorists to this day ( Read more... )