Houston news: best cities, diversity, crime, soccer

Hey, there's a women's soccer league! Houston has to get in on this. Maybe when the Dynamo move out of UH, the women's pro team can move in.

Houston is one of the top ten best cities to live. Considering the number one city, I don't know if it's a reliable list, though.

Houston's diversity is apparently a model of future outlooks for US cities. That's right, we're demographic trend setters.

Houstonians are more happy about living here than in the past--Rice University has released their annual Houston area survey.

Although a lot of people don't believe it, Houston's violent crime rate has decreased. For some reason the article reports that the periods in question are July 2007-March 2008 and July 2008-March 2009, nine month periods. Why would you do that? It seems like Jan-Dec would make more sense. Also, I wonder what the impact of hurricanes in the area on crime are.

Scientists have found a way to strengthen spider silk using steel. That's pretty cool, no?

A handheld ultrasound smartphone? That's pretty cool. I wonder what uses people can come up with for ultrasound devices.

Plans for the Dynamo stadium are still moving forward, albeit slowly.