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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Links to Your World, Tuesday May 22

“Boys and girls act differently, on the playground and at home. If you choose to ignore that, you’re doing some weird social experiment and not being fair to your kids.” Joel Stein, about his new book, Man Made. Looks like an entertaining book from a father trying to figure out how to be a good masculine role model for his newborn son.

 

Why your cell phone is making you a bad parent.

 

Fleet of Ambulances On Hand for 41-Year-Olds' Touch Football Game

 

More therapists are confronting rather than coddling whiners. Here's how to get a grip on your own whining.

 

Want to live longer? Drink coffee.

 

A Dandy Lion.

 

A top-10 list of the most popular names for baby boys and girls shows a preference for biblical names. Christianity Today asks if it matters what we name our children.

 

Wow. You really should read the short piece by Warren Kozak, "Food Stamps and the $41 Cake." Things have to change in the welfare programs--for the good of the individual receiving it as well as for the nation.

 

"There are rewards for politicians, corporations, think tanks, and activists who dissemble about risk. There are none for reinsurers. If they’re taking on less of it than their insurers would like them to, then the world is more dangerous than we’re willing to admit" (Brendan Greely for Businessweek)




 

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