Wee Fringe

B.C. school districts get funding boost.
Well, the BC budget has come out and it’s not doom and gloom for the education sector as had been feared!
In fact, education, as well as sports and arts funding for youths, got a boost.
Yay BC! (I think, I haven’t read through the rest of the budget yet!!)

British medical journal discredits link between MMR vaccine, autism.

Autism is a very real spectrum disorder.
The link between autism and vaccination is not so real.
Finally, the Lancet retracted a 1998 article that, for many, was the basis of the autism-vaccine link. For years, we’ve known that article was flawed.

How to keep women on the career ladder – The Globe and Mail.

The challenges of being a female academic: mother, wife, graduate student/professor.
Let me tell ya, it ain’t easy.
But, it can work, if you’re fortunate enough to be in a rather progressive academic system and have a rather sane partner at home.
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Children Take the Stage in Same-Sex Marriage Push – NYTimes.com.

It’s both heartwarming and heartbreaking to see that children are taking the stand to speak up about having gay parents as being normal family life and not detrimental to their development. Parents have to be innately good people and good to their kids. That’s what matters. [...]