Things I learned lately 24 September

• It turns out that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, an assessment developed in the early 1940s, based on the writings of Carl Jung, has serious reliability issues. Extraversion (E) vs. Introversion (I); Sensing (S) vs. Intuition (N); Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F); Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P). That's because the test results vary depending on context, motivation, maturity and social environment. In essence, be careful before labelling yourself as an ENTP or what have you, because it may only be accurate in a specific set of circumstances.
  
  
  
• After the election on 20 Oct, Canada's Conservative caucus is 95% white.
• London courier and private hire taxi firm Addison Lee has pledged to convert its whole passenger car fleet to electric vehicles by 2023. While it has over 4,800 cars operating in London, its recent acquisition of black taxi service ComCab will make it the largest taxi company in London with over 7,000 vehicles.
• The Norwegian butter crisis began in late 2011 with an acute shortage of butter across markets in Norway. The shortage caused soaring prices (a single 250 g (8.8 oz) pack of imported butter cost NOK 300 (€39; £32; $50)) and stores' stocks of butter ran out within minutes of deliveries. Norway was gripped by smør-panik (butter panic) as a result of the butter shortage.
• The recently created Alberta Immunization Record PDF (don't dare call it a passport) isn't locked and can be edited. So, you can make it say whatever vaccine you want, whatever name you want. [slow clap]
• A transparent wood material has been invented that starts out as balsa wood before being processed. The ramifications are windows with the insulating properties of wood.
• Popsicles used to be called 'Epsicle ice pops', and fudgesicles used to be called 'fudgicles'.
• Part of the reason Japan and Germany established such a great car industry is because after World war II, they had tons of manufacturing ability from the war, yet were banned from building a military. So they made cars.