The latest in neighborhood discord: Japan and South Korea, Turkey and Egypt, and India and Pakistan.
Speaking of Turkey.. will its leaders manage to strike a balance internally?
Some East African countries move to curtail press freedom.
Yup, like Indians, Russians somehow seem to reconcile science and technology with superstition.
Holy crap: in 2013, a judge--in the United States--deemed that a woman of absconded with a fetus when she moved a way from the biological father, who didn't want the kid in the first place, to pursue educational opportunities. What does it say when a woman's womb is legally determined to limit her freedom of movement? WTF? (You can kind of relax because her appeal was successful, but the WTF of the matter remains.)
While we're on the topic of rape culture, check out the stories of Potomac School and the Navy.
Views on Common Core aside, kids need to be challenged, not coddled.
A month ago I linked to a much more coherent article on "poor" decision making earlier, so the only thing I'll say about this one is, no, you don't need to eat meat when you're pregnant. As I'd written earlier,
I can totally see how poverty impairs strategic decision making and I agree that Jamie Oliver's contempt for the poor is ridiculous, but there's something to be said for acknowledging that even (first-world) poor people have some choice in what they consume.
You don't have to be a psychopath, even if it's in your genes.
Bill Gates is funding on egg replacement R&D.
Sex: a legal review.
If you sometimes wonder whether the Mayan Apocalysers were onto something, here's a datapoint.
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