Sweden votes to lower age to change legal gender to 16
BBC News The public has also been generally less supportive of the law change, with a recent poll by Swedish television network TV4 finding that 59% of Swedes thought it…
‘Do I stop coming to church?’: Tensions run high in multi-faith Sydney
BBC News In Fowler, the local council district, residents’ ancestries reflect that multiculturalism, ranging from Vietnam, China and parts of the Middle East. It is also one of the most…
30 Laughably Terrible Haircuts That Put Barbers n’ Stylists in a Hairy Situation
FAIL Blog We’ve all been there, swiveling around in the barber’s chair to see ourselves in the mirror for the first time after a haircut. Getting a transformative cut is…
NCHS Webinar: A Look at Suicide Rates in Puerto Rico
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) The NCHS Webinar: A Look at Suicide Rates in Puerto Rico, took place on December 15, 2023 and featured a discussion with leading…
Biden calls for tripling tariffs on Chinese metals
BBC News Many steel and aluminium imports from China already face border taxes, including a 25% duty on certain steel products, which the US put in place under former president…
Research finds Abta brand has ‘increasingly high positive sentiment’
Travel Weekly.co.uk Abta says its brand has “increasingly high positive sentiment” among consumers, demonstrating the “high business value” for members displaying the Abta logo. It said recent research among 1,000…
Paul Rogers on localising content for international fanbase
Sports Geek In this Sports Geek Throwback episode, Sean Callanan interviews Paul Rogers from episode 189, who was at AS Roma and now Investment Analyst at Raptor Group. Can’t see podcast…
Property owner devises a plan to get back at the county after they tried to steal 3,750 square feet of his land: ‘They won’t be extending the road after all’
FAIL Blog Property lines are sacred. Even in the frontier days when cowboys were hijacking their neighbor’s land over a sack of potatoes, the two most important things about land…
Twitch is bringing its TikTok-style feed to everyone this month
The Verge Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge After nearly a year of testing, Twitch’s new TikTok-style discovery feed will finally roll out to all users later this month.…
Barbara Joans, Anthropologist Who Studied Biker Culture, Dies at 89
New York Times – Travel In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research: bikers, and in particular, women…