March 11, 2009
I’ve really been getting into podcasts lately. I have the GRE coming up, and God knows I need to brush up on both my logical thinking and my vocabulary (the math is in a whole different circle of Hell for me.) Podcasts fulfill several purposes for me: A) They get me through the morning commute; B) They help me internalize world news to use for the logic essay on the GRE and C) They catch me up on industry news ...
February 13, 2009
So, you know how there’s this whole market for trafficking women for sex? Well, apparently, in a reversal of roles, women are now targeting men for sex and acting as their pimps. The first international report into the scope of human trafficking, published yesterday, found a disproportionate number of female perpetrators, more than in any other crime, selling other women into slavery in countries including Australia. My first question is obviously how the study was designed, statistics, outliers, r squared ...