OZmating
Spiegel Online (German) apparently followed up on the “ugly duckling” Mont Isa, Queensland, story I recently wrote about and comes up with some interesting figures regarding the Australian gender balance. When I was told by an Australian friend late last year that “there are hardly any good men in Sydney these days” I did not [...]
read onSnowball fights in the Demographic Winter
I guess this should go on afoe, but I don’t have the time for a profound comment – The Nation’s Kathryn Joyce looks at the American Christian Right’s alleged concern about the impending demise of Europe due to a relative lack of “the right babies” and a relative abundance of the wrong ones, also known [...]
read onNetzbasierte Integration.
Der Blogbote informiert über einen in der Welt erschienenen Artikel von Süleyman Artiisik, der sich mit der Internet-Nutzun junger Türken in Deutschland auseinandersetzt. Auch wenn im Artikel die Befürchtung einer von ethnisch ausgerichteten Subnetzen geprägten Parallelwelt als nicht gegeben angesehen wird – denn zumeist würde das Netz für “Liebe und Flirten” genutzt – kann man [...]
read onWith 66 years, your life begins.
When German singer Udo Juergens once had a huge hit singing about the joys of retirement (“with 66 years, your life begins”) he probably thought about long strolls in the mountains rather than Sex and the Single Senior. From the NYTimes.
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