-
54 votes
-
Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children's risk for ill health and how governments are responding
23 votes -
Has Iceland found the antidote to toxic ‘girlboss’ feminism – concept of ‘konur eru konum bestar’ is everywhere, including the female-led coalition government
16 votes -
The women of the West are making political history — and have been for 130 years
4 votes -
The world's most feminist city – how Umeå in Sweden became an idyll for women
7 votes -
Why don't governments invest in their own dating apps? Would you use one?
I've thought about this off and on for like a year. It, as far as I know, seems well documented that populations are struggling with dating and marriages, especially in the younger generations. A...
I've thought about this off and on for like a year.
It, as far as I know, seems well documented that populations are struggling with dating and marriages, especially in the younger generations. A lot of people attribute it to things like finances, working hours, cost of living, etc, but also the abysmal online dating circus. People don't seem to go out with the intention of meeting people as much, and so most turn to apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge. But with these apps basically monopolized by the Match group, and none of the parent companies have an actual incentive to get people off the app, it seems like a ripe opportunity for governments everywhere to try and fill in the gap.
As they don't have the investor profit motive, but they do have a very strong motive for people to get together, have relationships, marriages, eventually babies. And this is just a baseless claim on my part, but I imagine it could be stimulating to local economies as more people go on dates. I know at least my ass doesn't go anywhere really when I'm single.
29 votes -
Meet Chicago's Rat Queen (w/ Rob Scallon) | Rats pt. 1
4 votes -
The dark reality of Japanese host clubs
10 votes -
Indian government to impose ban on import, sale, and cross-breeding of twenty-three ferocious dog breeds
15 votes -
Denmark has pledged to put up more statues of women, with the country's culture minister saying the capital has “more statues of mythical beasts and horses”
12 votes -
British Columbia, Canada: Family pets will no longer be considered property during divorce proceedings
15 votes -
The red US state brain drain isn’t coming. It’s happening right now.
77 votes -
Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway
8 votes -
Residents of Luleå, Sweden welcome new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months
12 votes -
Broken zipper? France will pay to get it fixed
16 votes -
The war in Ukraine is heightening tensions between Russians and Norwegians living on Svalbard | Focus on Europe
8 votes -
Lord Sugar documents east London’s rubbish mountains
7 votes -
UK government vows action after man dies in latest dog attack
27 votes -
Abortions rose in most US states this year, new data shows
26 votes -
Brazilian delivery workers take their fight to get app users to pick up their orders to local legislatures
16 votes -
Copenhagen's mayor has urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city's Christiania neighborhood where a thirty-year-old man was shot and killed
11 votes -
The trees on Xenia Street
6 votes -
Growing segregation by sex in Israel raises fears for women’s rights
71 votes -
AP psychology effectively banned in Florida over lesson on sexual orientation, gender identity
64 votes -
New Florida standards in schools
48 votes -
Abortion laws are driving academics out of some US states—and keeping others from coming
29 votes -
The manufacturing backlash: No factory in my backyard
15 votes -
Residents of Christiania in Denmark may vote to end open cannabis trade over fears of rising gang violence
6 votes -
An anonymous critic played cat and mouse with Beijing for twelve years. Then he got caught.
12 votes -
Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time this weekend for the very last time
11 votes -
Legal expert Anna Singer is investigating whether Swedish authorities were aware of falsified child origins as they approved the adoptions of thousands of South Korean children
4 votes -
Child labor laws are under attack in states across the country
9 votes -
The most lawless county in Texas
9 votes -
Why a gang of Spanish grannies covered an entire street in woolly blankets
4 votes -
Scotland to become first country in world to provide free period products
16 votes -
In Iceland, traditionally a land of cat lovers, bans and curfews are redefining the human relationship with domestic cats
7 votes -
Adolescents in the US are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
24 votes -
Six indigenous Greenlanders taken as children to Denmark in a failed social experiment in 1951 are demanding compensation from the Danish state
8 votes -
A case study in NIMBY entitlement: The former mayor of Beverly Hills is so mad about duplexes
12 votes -
An unprecedented California program is already fulfilling its promise to house the most vulnerable
11 votes -
Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city – Juhana Vartiainen says too many highly skilled foreigners shun Finnish capital because of difficult language
13 votes -
Democracy should be sentimentalist not rationalist
6 votes -
Finland has an ageing population and a labor shortage – despite government programs, immigrants and their families are not always greeted with open arms
7 votes -
How a menthol cigarette ban impacts our vices
4 votes -
California will discourage students who are gifted at math
16 votes -
Norway approves Utøya memorial for victims of 2011 massacre, despite local concerns – memorial is expected to be ready for the tenth anniversary of the attacks on 22nd July
8 votes -
Getting plowed - Exposing the bid-rigging, violence and sabotage at the heart of an unlikely racket: snow removal (2012)
4 votes -
BBC 100 Women 2020 – A profile of Sanna Marin, who leads Finland's all-female coalition government
7 votes -
At least twenty municipalities have changed local laws to allow backyard chicken coops since the pandemic started
8 votes -
Benjamin Netanyahu says new Israeli government should annex illegal settlements
2 votes