1) Paul Niehaus' non profit, GiveDirectly, lets you directly wire money to the bank accounts of impoverished families in Kenya
2) Empirical estimates suggest most published medical research is true (previously on FE)
3) On quantum smell (PLoS One)
4) On the ecological dead weight loss of cats (via Stephen Hughes)
5) One of the newly announced Tang Prizes' four areas of focus is "sustainable development" (via MR)
6) Thomas Edsall's spectacular piece on whether consumption inequality has been tracking income inequality (also via MR)
7) Gordon and Dahl on consensus in modern economics (NBER)
8) The "Ringelmann effect" and the Statistics of Statisticians
9) Andrew Gelman on the odd spam academic bloggers get (I just got one on "10 Astonishing Examples of Bizarre Parasitic Life Cycles")
10) V. S. Naipual's influence on Robert E. Lucas
2) Empirical estimates suggest most published medical research is true (previously on FE)
3) On quantum smell (PLoS One)
4) On the ecological dead weight loss of cats (via Stephen Hughes)
5) One of the newly announced Tang Prizes' four areas of focus is "sustainable development" (via MR)
6) Thomas Edsall's spectacular piece on whether consumption inequality has been tracking income inequality (also via MR)
7) Gordon and Dahl on consensus in modern economics (NBER)
8) The "Ringelmann effect" and the Statistics of Statisticians
9) Andrew Gelman on the odd spam academic bloggers get (I just got one on "10 Astonishing Examples of Bizarre Parasitic Life Cycles")
10) V. S. Naipual's influence on Robert E. Lucas
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