Weekend Links

1) The last swimming elephant in the Andaman Islands

2) "The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life." (via Emmanuel)

3) The Stata community at StackOverflow is pretty active

4) Is Environmental Quality Worth the Cost? by V. Kerry Smith

5) Energy use in NYC buildings at the tax lot level

6) Energy poverty photography (via MF)

7) Political economy and climatology (not what you think)

8) "We can only have as good a foreign policy as the public's understanding of world affairs."

9) The BBC on American tent cities (via bb)

10) Industrial policy, growth, and ultraheavy manufacturing