Thursday assorted links
2. Americans now find suicide more socially acceptable.
3. What predicts inter-caste marriage?: the education of the groom’s mother. And note this: “Even in 2011, the rate of inter caste marriages in India was as low as 5.82%.”
4. Malcolm Gladwell and Jacob Weisberg are launching a new audio company.
5. TED talk by philosopher William MacAskill on how best to help the world.
6. Teens are protesting in-class presentations. ““Nobody should be forced to do something that makes them uncomfortable,” says Ula, a 14-year-old in eighth grade, who, like all students quoted, asked to be referred to only by her first name.”