Weekend Link Love: Fashionistas & A Picket Line, Om vs. Xanax, Pospartum Laws, A New Biofuel Source & the Target Backlash

A Wall Street Journal article delves into the debate surrounding New York Fashion Week and its move to Lincoln Center, where unions are fighting fashionistas. The fashion week folks want to choose workers for setup but the union for stagehands says their members usually get jobs for work on the premises. Fashion Week starts September 9.

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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick passed a law that aims to help women with postpartum depression. According to the Associated Press article,the law will force health insurers in the New England state to submit yearly reports on their work to screen for postpartum depression. Passed on August 10, it also forces the Department of Public Health to create regulations and policies to deal with the form of depression, including the development of public and professional education programs and screening tools.

Target is under the microscope for supporting an anti-gay Minnesota-based gubernatorial candidate. Now, a trio of major shareholders is among those slamming the contribution, and asking the retailer to change its donation process to prevent similar issues in the future. Click here for the Los Angeles Times report.

New research suggests that doing yoga three times a week may help calm people, as it boosts the levels of the amino acid, GABA. When interviewed, the subjects that did yoga were less anxious and reported being in a better mood. The Telegraph of London reports.

Alternative energy is the subject of much debate, with more countries attempting to find reasonably priced alternatives to fossil fuels, but one university is looking to liquor for the answer. According to a report from New Energy World Network, Edinburgh Napier University has developed a way to use the byproducts of whisky to create biofuel, in a project funded by the Scottish Enterprise’s Proof of Concept program. The technology for developing biofuel from whisky was inspired by a process developed by Chaim Weizmann, a Jewish refugee chemist that helped create the state of Israel. The university plans to create a spinoff company to make the fuel and sell it at the pumps. According to Biofuel Research Centre Director Professor Martin Tangney, the European Union aims to have biofuels comprise 10% of all fuel by 2020.