Monthly Archives: June 2018

Red and Blue Baby Naming: Inauguration 2009 Edition | Baby Name Wizard

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Source: Baby Names Blog: Blog of Baby Name Wizard author Laura Wattenberg | Red and Blue Baby Naming: Inauguration 2009 Edition | Baby Name Wizard

A few years back, I started a project to track down the red-blue divide in name terms. Did blue (liberal) and red (conservative) America actually name their children differently? Yes, they surely did. But how they did was a stunner.  The “bluest” names were traditional, Christian, and single-sex; the “reddest” were newly invented, non-religious and androgynous. …

Let’s say you have two groups of women making fashion choices. One opts for timeless classics, simple and a little formal; the other chooses the newest, trendiest, most eye-catching styles that make old fogeys squirm. What drives the difference? If you had to predict just one variable, the obvious choice is age. Was it possible that blue state parents were more conservative namers simply because they were older?

Sure enough, in 18 of the 19 states that voted for John Kerry in 2004, first-time mothers were older than the national average. And the more Democratic the community, the stronger the effect.

Review: The Intertwined Histories of Arab Science and Arabic SFF – ArabLit

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science fiction is part of the futurist vision they have of themselves: “Michael Winterbottom shot his 2003 film Code 46 partly in Dubai… parts of The Force Awakens were shot in Abu Dhabi,” as Determann’s book notes. Note the transition eastwards, since the desert planet Tatooine in Star Wars is actually the desert town of the same name in Tunisia, where much of the filming was done. The UAE has, of late, provided financial incentives for Western movie producers, itself part of its wider diversification away from oil strategy too. The same goes for their Mission to Mars.