Weekly-ish list of stuff interesting enough to share.

The High Price of Being Single in America.
This should be changed. In the meantime, will you marry me?

Portraits of Albanian Sworn Virgins
Gender, constructed

House GOP shafts rural America, still gets their votes For many in rural America, dems are too associated with patronizing urbanites who have very different views on things like repro rights. And dems do a poor job of countering lies from the right on farm and range issues.

Confessions of an analyst
On being able to tell your story

World population may actually start declining, not exploding.
How is population reduction to a scant 1 billion “literal extinction?”

Data scientists and engineers needed for a weekend datafest exploring money and politics
Using data to help real people, not just advertisers.

These links and more from my newsblur blog.