Geographic Mobility News Today

Technology can potentially meet the diverse needs of different demographic groups of workers, in terms of location, flexibility and hours of work.

There’s long been a historical fascination associated with the North. My country, Canada, which has been dubbed the Great White North, understands this mythology quite well. “The North focuses our anxieties,” author Margaret Atwood noted in a 1987 essay. “Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream.”

AUG 28, 20189:00 AM … What worries me most, however, is that companies offering personal genetic testing customarily seem to report back to those sending along a sample of their spit that they are a mix of different “ethnicities.” This is more than simply statistical nonsense. I fear doing this can also be dangerous. Claiming that it is possible to map ancestry in this fashion may be giving discredited old ideas about ethnicity and race new visibility. … We inherit roughly half our gene...