Women Marry Less These Days →

From US News and World Report:

"Researchers within the Princeton-Brookings report identified several contributing factors to marriage gaps between various classes. For one, there is a smaller pool of "marriageable" men – those with steady, well-paying jobs -- now than there used to be, especially among those with lower education levels.

For example, 82 percent of men ages 25 to 34 were part of the U.S. labor force in 2012, compared with 93 percent in 1960, according to the Pew Research Center. The share of men who are incarcerated also has surged, with black men and those with low levels of education particularly affected. 

Economically, the gap between earnings for men and women has narrowed, reducing the budgetary boost a woman could get from marriage and making it less necessary from that standpoint. In 1980, women earned less than 70 percent of what men earned. By 2012, the gap had narrowed to 93 percent."

So Women get married less because they don't *need* men as much, economically. Now they just look for men that they actually like.

And there aren't many of those. So they stay single. Then it's much less of a problem to leave should he becomes a jerk.

On the flip-side, it's almost too bad because marriage is awesome.

Computer Show brings Contemporary Guests Back in Time

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

ComputerShow is a beautiful and inspiring throwback. It's the SNL WeekendUpdate of Tech & Geekdom. And in this episode, Angela's facial expressions are laugh-out-loud* hilarious.

*I Don't think LOL would have been a thing for something like a decade after the time in Computer Show's fictional universe.

The Reason Why Witches Ride Brooms →

According to Megan Garber, writing for The Atlantic in early October 2013 (click blog title for link), apparently, one of the fungi that feeds in old rye bread (ergot) is somewhat hallucinagenic. It makes people sick when they invest it, but absorption through the skin causes a flying-like sensation. So between the 1300s and the 1700s people used to take that mold, along with brewed up roots and other things (witches brew) and rub it on a broom handle. Then ladies would insert that between their legs (no panties back then) and get hi. This is why witches "fly" on brooms. 

But sometimes people got high from unwittingly eating the mold. Or bein forced to tear it cause nothing else was around:

 "The Massachusetts of 1692 likely did see an outbreak of the fungus that had contributed, in other contexts, to 'witch's brew.'

The epicenter of the outbreak? Salem."

Science!