[NEWS] Five links about science, from libraries to smartphone sociology to spaceflight

[rfmcdonald]

• The Guardian's Ian Sample reports a claim that the older a father when a son is conceived, the geekier the son is likely to be.


• Pew Research Group's Abigail Geiger reports a study's claim American millennials are likelier than other generations to use libraries.
  
• This Longreads essay by Adam Greenfield examining the significance of the smartphone in human life is enthralling.


• Universe Today's Fraser Cain considers whether suspended animation, hibernation, is possible. (Note that this is not cryonics.)


• This Elon Musk sketch at New Space of the case for colonizing Mars and how Mars is to be reached is ambitious, at least.