[NEWS] Some Tuesday links
- MacLean’s has a pleasantly thoughtful front-page article describing transgenderism among teenagers and even younger children.
- CBC notes that Toronto is experiencing record numbers of potholes owing to extreme temperatures.
- The comments in Al Jazeera‘s article on Nigeria’s anti-gay legislation are as interesting as the article itself.
- Open Democracy notes Papua’s skepticism of Indonesia’s latest offer of autonomy.
- Shared on Facebook, this 2008 chart illustrating graphically the lexical distance between Europe’s major languages is insightful and fun to look at.
- NPR notes a study suggesting that American viewings of the MTV show 16 and Pregnant actually lower the teen birth rate in that country.
- The Atlantic notes that one sign of China’s real estate boom-turned-bubble is the number of European-themed towns and neighbourhoods built by realtors.
Written by Randy McDonald
January 14, 2014 at 8:38 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
Tagged with canada, china, Demographics, environment, first peoples, glbt issues, indonesia, languages, links, nigeria, potholes, real estate, regionalism, separatism, toronto, transgender