1) The University of Guelph in Ontario is hosting the 1st International Workshop on Econometric Applications in Climatology
2) Stata has a youtube channel.
3) Biolite: Camp / home stove meets thermoelectric generator (via Krista Mar)
4) Reason.com reviews Sam Arbesman's new book (and empiricist's companion), The Half Life of Facts (via Dave Pell)
5) "[W]e find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in documented crimes against women in India. Our evidence suggests that this increase is good news, driven primarily by greater reporting rather than greater incidence of such crimes." (now out in AEJ Applied)
6) Why Does the IPCC Ignore the Environmental Economists? (via Matthew Kahn)
7) Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials (via Gordon McCord)
8) The Power of Kawaii: Viewing Cute Images Promotes a Careful Behavior and Narrows Attentional Focus (PLoS One)
9) The Kenya Open Data Initiative has a lot of interesting and random (in the colloquial sense) datasets (via Willa Friedman)
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