From National Geographic we find something else to blame on women….

Here’s a simple fact with an uncertain explanation: historically, hurricanes with female names have, on average, killed more people than those with male ones. Kiju Jung from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign made this discovery after analysing archival data about the 94 hurricanes that hit the US between 1950 and 2012. As they write, “changing a severe hurricane’s name from Charley to Eloise could nearly triple its death toll”. Why? The names certainly don’t reflect a storm’s severity, and they alternate genders from one to the next. Jung team thinks that the effect he found is due to […]

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