Here I am, sweating in the McConnell cluster and trying to figure out why its so warm out for mid April, when I came across this on Freakonomics;
Did you know that in 1965 the U.S. Department of Agriculture planted a particular variety of lilac in more than 70 locations around the U.S. Northeast, to detect the onset of spring — in turn to be used to determine the appropriate timing of corn planting and the like? The records the U.S.D.A. have kept show that those same lilacs are blooming as much as two weeks earlier than they did in 1965. April has, in a very real sense, become May.
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Enjoy the sunshine brahders.
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I didn't want to copy and paste another Freakonomics post, so i'll throw this in here;
Take two children, one growing up with married parents in the United States, and one growing up with unmarried parents in Sweden; which child has the higher likelihood of seeing his parents’ relationship break up? Answer: the American kid, because children living with married parents in the United States have a higher probability of experiencing a breakup than do children living with unmarried parents in Sweden. That’s how high our breakup rates are.
Amazing. And yet our politicians continue to debate whether to promote formal legal institution of marriage, rather than addressing family life as it is lived.
absolutely bizarre.
i'll be in Stockholm in early june, btw.
oh how i miss the mcconnell computer cluster...
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