Weird Science 4.0

Overweight young women get less education and therefore make less subsequent career progress, according to research by Christy M. Glass, Steven A. Haas, and Eric N. Reither, published in the sociological journal Social Forces. Obesity doesn't seem to impact young men to the same extent. Caveat: the data examined were for individuals born around 1939, and may not hold for today's young people.

You can find the abstract of the Social Forces article here, and a popularization of the material in the Chicago Sun-Times here.