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12.01.2012

Weekend links

1) Two papers (one each in Science and Nature) have come out in the past month indicating that onset of human tool use was much earlier than we thought, at multiple points of development.

2) Stata's gift shop is remarkably charming

3) England has maintained a military presence in all but 22 countries around the world (via Artem Peplov)

4) Sam Arbesman on the Kolmogorov compexity of holidays (via MR)

5) Someone needs to come up with a good instrument for high fructose corn syrup consumption

6) Nature's editorial board weighs in on the PNAS gender bias paper and their take on how best to respond (previously on FE)

7) Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net (NBER)

8) Attention as a scarce resource, experimental development econ edition (Science, previously on FE)

9) Suicide and drought in New South Wales, Australia, 1970–2007 (PNAS)

10) There will be an open mic night at this year's AGU Annual Meeting in San Francisco


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