Thought for the day
In Finland fathers spend more time per day (eight minutes on average, actually) with school- aged children than do mothers.
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Should 16 year olds be given the vote?
Should the British voting age be reduced to 16? Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens, SNP and Plaid Cymru all believe so, and recently sought unsuccessfully to vote through a private members’ bill in Parliament to that effect. The arguments made for this idea are specious. Letting 16-year-olds vote, it is claimed, would invigorate our …
Parking pests
A new phenomenon is disturbing my usual peace of mind. I refer to the habit that has recently caught on whereby visitors to our neighborhood, either from Maryland or Virginia, park on our block and sit there in the car, engrossed in their cellphones or computers, sometimes for an hour or more at a time. …
Is NewYork doomed?
New York should prepare for 15-metre storm surges by 2300. Much worse is yet to come. Climate change will bring good news and really bad news for New York City. The good news is that hurricanes might be more likely to miss the city over the next three centuries. This means the future risk of …
Thought for the day
“We are all,atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” (Richard Dawkins)