Why it's not a moral failing to get up late, despite the ugly fascism of early-rising cultural supremacists.

‘the car is no longer a great convenience if it takes a 20 minute trip to buy a quart of milk’. On the movement of young Americans from suburbs to cities.

‘In some ways, it is like the very ubiquity of technology has led us back to a world where socially normative gender roles take hold all over again’.

‘People of higher status are more prone to cheating, taking candy from children and failing to wait their turn at four-way stops, a UC Berkeley experiment finds.’ Rich people are bastards?

Really interesting stuff, from a junior school!

Your assumptions are probably mistaken.

‘The first stirrings of major intergenerational conflict are already being noted. The basic rights of the recent past – a safe job, free education and healthcare, secure homes to raise a family, a modest but comfortable old age – have slipped quietly away, all to be replaced by a myriad of vapid lifestyle choices and glittery consumer trinkets.’

‘Stock up the house in case there’s more of this, and wait it out. That’s my advice.’

I feel like this describes me perfectly.

Fascinating statistics.

First-hand experience.

On the implications of the Milgram and similar experiments. ‘It is a terrible critique of human behaviour that we would rather let something terrible happen than act in a socially embarrassing manner.’

‘Dangerous dogs are a menace. But the rest of the species are bloody annoying too.’

‘Is the by now infamous regeneration of the Elephant + Castle area going to benefit those of us who already live here?’

‘The broken-Britain myth is worse than scaremongering—it glosses over those who need help most.’

'So please, drink rarely but when you do drink, drink irresponsibly. Have fun. Do stupid things. … I guarantee that Ollie Reed had far more fun in his life than you've had in yours.’

‘Some school leaders' petty insistence on inflicting their own lack of anything resembling panache or style on to people who are experimenting with versions of who they might be smacks, to me, of horrific jealousy of youth.’

‘It was only when some neighbours [...] wrote to [the Standards Commissioner ...] that he agreed to open an inquiry.’

‘I pedalled through eerily deserted streets’

Excellent piece on the Naturalistic Fallacy.

In some Korean schools, ‘students with naturally brown or curly hair [must] carry ID cards proving that they have not colored or permed their hair.’

‘The genius of the pro-car lobby has been to convince the public that roadkill is acceptable collateral damage.’

Just like the old saying: ‘chicks dig scars.’

Seems reasonable, right? I’ve seen someone browsing his locally saved porn on a flight without internet access, though, so it’s not really solving the problem.

A fascinating journey into our attitudes to young people. Read the linked articles too.

'Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?' A good idea.

‘[A]nybody who thinks it is a duty of the state to help keep housing expensive is crazy’.

Why living in the west isn't enough to free people from middle-eastern government repression.

Using computer simulations to model human societies.

A third of all rail suicides in the UK occur at or around Southall station, and most of them are by Sikh women.

Cementing my opinion of them as a lot of unreconstructed reactionary bigots, they are going to ‘protest against plans to give help to women and ethnic minorities entering the profession.’

Includes monkeys and bananas. I’m not sure that anyone has actually tried it, though.

A cautionary tale for those who still believe ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’.

Kathy Sierra’s getting horrible, misogynistic death threats. No one deserves that.

‘Social drinking builds social capital.’

Simon Jenkins on the ‘bleak minimalism’ and ‘cruel brutalism’ of modernism.