Sacramento Bee
12 October 2019
Will PG&E power outage
lead to boom of ‘blackout babies’ in 2020? Here’s what research shows
[…] Burlando said it’s particularly unlikely that a
baby boom would occur in a developed nation like the United States because the
usage of long-acting birth control methods is so ubiquitous. But that doesn’t
mean power outages don’t result in baby booms, he said. In Tanzania, where a
2008 blackout lasted for a full month, Burland[o] said, “there was a documented
increase in births that was quite substantial.” […]
[The author’s web page contains a link to a PDF of his
paper on the Zanzibarian baby boom: Alfredo Burlando (2014), “Power Outages,
Power Externalities, and Baby Booms.” Demography,
51 (4), 1477-1500.]
=====
The Guardian [UK]
13 October 2019
Black Confederates: exploding
America's most persistent myth
[…] The American civil war has never been in short
supply of myths, but [Kevin] Levin describes black Confederates as the “most
persistent”. Hundreds of articles, organisations and websites rewrite history
by asserting that between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans
volunteered as soldiers in an army fighting to preserve slavery. […] Levin’s
new book, Searching for Black
Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth, argues that slavery was
central to the south’s war effort. Drawing on research including letters, diary
entries and newspaper editorials, it demolishes the notion that the Confederacy
embraced black men as soldiers from the beginning of the war. […]
=====
Roodepoort Northsider [South Africa]
15 October 2019
Community attempts to invade
clinic to see patients ‘stuck inside each other’
The Zandspruit Clinic was forced to temporarily shut
its doors and cease operations yesterday, Monday, 14 October, after the
community attempted to storm into the clinic following rumours that two
patients were allegedly admitted after they became ‘stuck inside each other’
during sexual intercourse. […]
No comments:
Post a Comment