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A few articles
Oct. 9th, 2012 09:16 amOne suggesting that cities that have no helmet laws encourage bike riding. Because if you require or encourage helmets, people think biking is dangerous and don't do it. They get into their dangerous car, undeterred by the seatbelt laws.
The simple fact that cities without helmet laws have more bike ridership may be true (I certainly assume it is), but I don't think the reason given logically holds up.
Here's an article on a pilot program to keep some convicted mothers with their children. If it keeps these women from recividism and helps keep their kids from crimes later on, I think that's all for the best. Probably a *bargain*.
Providing free birth control leads to fewer abortions and teenage births. I am amazed. Truly, I am astonished. See how shocking this news is? Who could've ever predicted this? WHO? WHOOOOOO?
Here's another set of pictures from North Korea. Judging from the pictures of public transportation, North Korean trains lack air conditioning, their buses lack safety glass in the windows and aren't repaired quickly, and while their stations are *clean* they're clearly not getting maintenance as often as they could be.
What really bothers me is how many of the street scenes are totally devoid of people. Is this a stylistic choice by the photographer? Or were people shooed away by the photographer's guards? Or is the city actually that empty at most times of the day? I mean, can you imagine anybody shooting pictures in NYC and choosing to make pictures that are largely empty?
Shanghai revisits its forgotten Jewish past
The history of the 20,000 European Jews who fled to the Chinese city during World War II is being rediscovered.
The simple fact that cities without helmet laws have more bike ridership may be true (I certainly assume it is), but I don't think the reason given logically holds up.
Here's an article on a pilot program to keep some convicted mothers with their children. If it keeps these women from recividism and helps keep their kids from crimes later on, I think that's all for the best. Probably a *bargain*.
Providing free birth control leads to fewer abortions and teenage births. I am amazed. Truly, I am astonished. See how shocking this news is? Who could've ever predicted this? WHO? WHOOOOOO?
Here's another set of pictures from North Korea. Judging from the pictures of public transportation, North Korean trains lack air conditioning, their buses lack safety glass in the windows and aren't repaired quickly, and while their stations are *clean* they're clearly not getting maintenance as often as they could be.
What really bothers me is how many of the street scenes are totally devoid of people. Is this a stylistic choice by the photographer? Or were people shooed away by the photographer's guards? Or is the city actually that empty at most times of the day? I mean, can you imagine anybody shooting pictures in NYC and choosing to make pictures that are largely empty?
Shanghai revisits its forgotten Jewish past
The history of the 20,000 European Jews who fled to the Chinese city during World War II is being rediscovered.
