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The Rise of Silicon Dad

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Margeaux Wolberg was sitting with the other 12-year-olds in her class when one of the girls turned to her and asked, “Is your mom dead?€ She never came to school like the other mothers to volunteer in the library or help the teachers. It was always Margeaux’s dad who did that.
In Silicon Valley, fathers come in many forms, from stay-at-home dads to work-obsessed executives to the increasingly common young men who are striving to “have it all”. Today, 47 per cent of men between the ages of 18 and 34 say that being a good parent is one of the most important things in their lives, up from 39 per cent in 1997, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center.

Fatherhood. Times they are changing.
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Deep Springs is a two-year college and, also, a cattle-and-alfalfa ranch. Its 26 students share duties irrigating fields and riding the herd, but also fixing boilers and scrubbing pots, alongside reading Nietzsche and swotting at their maths problems. They pay no tuition fees, and most finish their bachelor’s degrees at Harvard, Yale and the like. And they are all male. The college has admitted no women as regular students since it was founded in 1917, in accordance with a trust established by Lucien Nunn, the tycoon who founded it as a place “for promising young men”. The atmosphere is intellectual, rugged and ascetic, and the college is a democratic body, where student-led committees decide admissions, hire the faculty and mind most matters of policy. (via Co-education: Old all-male ways die hard | The Economist)

Deep Springs is a two-year college and, also, a cattle-and-alfalfa ranch. Its 26 students share duties irrigating fields and riding the herd, but also fixing boilers and scrubbing pots, alongside reading Nietzsche and swotting at their maths problems. They pay no tuition fees, and most finish their bachelor’s degrees at Harvard, Yale and the like. And they are all male. The college has admitted no women as regular students since it was founded in 1917, in accordance with a trust established by Lucien Nunn, the tycoon who founded it as a place “for promising young men”. The atmosphere is intellectual, rugged and ascetic, and the college is a democratic body, where student-led committees decide admissions, hire the faculty and mind most matters of policy. (via Co-education: Old all-male ways die hard | The Economist)

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kqedscience: Where Do California’s Carbon Emissions Come From? Cap-and-trade will initially regulate the industrial sector and utilities. Eventually, fuels will be phased into the program, too. It’s all part of AB 32, the law that requires California to bring greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020. Here’s a breakdown of where the emissions come from. cars and planes

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Where Do California’s Carbon Emissions Come From?

Cap-and-trade will initially regulate the industrial sector and utilities. Eventually, fuels will be phased into the program, too. It’s all part of AB 32, the law that requires California to bring greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020. Here’s a breakdown of where the emissions come from.

cars and planes

(via dougcmatthews)

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