“Among the most interesting revelations in the data is the correlation between a baby’s name and the parents’ socioeconomic status.”
From “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything” by Steven D. Levitt
“The concept of social vulnerability has achieved great resonance in the arena of risk and security studies, given greater degrees of sophistication reached by measurement tools—such as social barometers—and other demographic indicators.” from — Huong, S. J., & McCoy, R. G. (2025, March 21). Confronting federal censorship of social vulnerability index. NIH National Library of Medicine.
“Remember, self-assessment is only for your benefit to develop and grow as a person, and is not punitive.”
From “Music and the Child” by Natalie Sarrazin
“In the US there has been a mechanism for taxing polluting industries to form a Superfund to remediate abandoned sites, or to litigate to force corporations to remediate their contaminated sites.” – wikipedia
“Assemblymember John Harabedian is introducing new legislation that would create statewide science-based standards for the testing and removal of contamination left by wildfires.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026