1) Alternate markets in life insurance, Apollo 11 edition
2) A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization (Nature)
3) "We use differential declines in service provision --measured by nuns/capita-- to identify its effect on fertility, controlling for secular trends. They are large: 300 to 400 children per nun." (NBER)
4) Human capital disinvestment as an externality of arranged marriage norms (also NBER)
5) Marginal Revolution is starting an online university, and the first class is in development (via Udadisi)
6) Chris Blattman gives advice on PhD students' NSF applications
7) Frontiers of forensic academic honesty enforcement, Crimson edition (via Dave Pell)
8) Niall Ferguson, the John Yoo line, and the paradox of public speaking (via Luke Stein)
9) Buffalo bones, phosphorous, and the legacy of renewable resource mismanagement (via boingboing)
10) Terra Populus' data extract system is almost ready
11) Revolutionists
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