Some weeks the pickin's are thin. Not this week.
1. Asians are now the largest immigrant group in Southern California: New Suburban Dream Born of Asia and Southern California
2. Surge in unwed mothers: Deep in the stats, it's not what you think
According to the US Centers for Disease Control, 42 percent of children will have lived with cohabitating parents by the time they are 12 years old, almost twice as many who will have divorced parents. And this particular sort of family structure is on the rise, a number of studies show.
3. In a sharp trend reversal, highway fatalities rise
"The news, while disheartening, is not surprising," said Barbara Harsha, executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association. "With the improving economy and historically low levels of motor vehicle deaths in recent years, we expected deaths to increase. Highway deaths have been declining significantly in recent years."
4. We live in a house that is 105 years old. IMO, most houses built after 1940 are boring. How Americans' Taste in Houses Has Evolved Over the Last Century
5. Are we purging the poorest?
In a new book, MIT urbanist Lawrence Vale examines the downsizing of public housing.
6. Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen have been popping up everywhere promoting their new book, The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business. Here is a PBS interview:
Watch Google's Schmidt, Cohen Describe a 'New Digital Age' on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
7. Love this story: Alleviating Poverty with a Washing Machine Powered by Your Feet
The GiraDora uses the principles of a salad spinner to make cleaning clothes less back-breaking and time-consuming work for millions of people in poverty.
8. Amen to this article. Good charities spend more on admin but it is not money wasted
The popular idea that charities fritter money on unnecessary admin has been proven wrong. You must spend to be effective.
9. Why US firms are turning to Mexico, leaving China behind
... Mexico has more international trade deals than any other country, and exports as many goods as the rest of Latin America combined.
There has always been an electronics manufacturing hub in Tijuana, but Chinese competition damaged its business a decade ago.
Now rising wage costs in Asia and a higher exchange rate are prompting many companies targeting the US market to take another look at Mexico. ...
...The new Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto wants to put a new spin on the country with the image of a booming economy and as a good place to do business.
Security and the drugs problem still dominate talks between the US and Mexico, but its southern neighbour's increasing importance in the global economy is changing the relationship. ...
10. The Manufacturing Cost Components For A Bunch Of Different Things
11. Five Innovative Technologies that Bring Energy to the Developing World
12. No-Wash Shirt Doesn't Stink After 100 Days
13. Craig Stanford, 'Planet Without Apes' Author, Says Eco-Tourism Could Save The Primates
A slice of the money that tourists pay can run $500 an hour at some of the sites in East Africa and goes to build hospitals and hire teachers." Although it's not philosophically or altruistically driven, the bottom line is the animals are more valuable alive than dead, since there's an incentive to protect them.
14. Approaching Nutrition From An Investor's Mindset
How does one succeed in nutrition when nobody seems to agree on anything? How can one get the benefits that arrive in the early stages of a diet without staying too long and compromising their health? What has worked well for me is thinking about nutrition like an investor thinks about investment opportunities.
15. The Lies You've Been Told About the Origin of the QWERTY Keyboard.
The QWERTY configuration for typewriters can be traced, actually, to the telegraph.
16. Money Buys Happiness and You Can Never Have Too Much, New Research Says
Here again we have to revisit the differences between happiness, joy, meaning, and satisfaction.
Watch Baseball and Religion on PBS. See more from Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.
18. Why Older Minds Make Better Decisions
Recent research has already challenged what we thought we knew about the capability of the brain. What has become clear, says Dr. Gregory Samanez-Larkin of Vanderbilt University, one of the network's co-directors, is that despite a decline in some types of cognitive function, "older people often make better decisions than younger people."
19. Moon Landing Faked!!!—Why People Believe in Conspiracy Theories
New psychological research helps explain why some see intricate government conspiracies behind events like 9/11 or the Boston bombing.
20. Scot McKnight answers the question So What's an Anabaptist?
21. Beneath the stereotypes, a stressful life for preachers' kids
22. When and Where Is It Okay to Cry?
23. 10 Reasons Why Humor Is A Key To Success At Work
24. Scientists May Be On Brink Of Major Discovery In Hunt For HIV Cure
Danish scientists are expecting results that will show that "finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV is possible."
They are conducting clinical trials to test a "novel strategy" in which the HIV virus is stripped from human DNA and destroyed permanently by the immune system.
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