1) The World Climate Research Programme's CLIVAR Early Career Scientists network went live earlier this month (via Mark Cane)
2) On generalizing behavioral results outside of WEIRD contexts (via Gordon McCord, explanation of WEIRD here)
3) Does Sorting Students Improve Scores? An Analysis of Class Composition (NBER, and previously-ish on FE)
4) Are you a STEM graduate student with some bright pedagogical ideas? If so, the NSF's Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge might be for you. (via Joni Falk)
5) Origins of Religiousness: The Role of Natural Disasters (via Amir Jina)
6) Is it too soon to talk about velociraptors?
7) "There are 27 million slaves worldwide. In 1860, there were 25 million. Since 1860, the median price for a slave has risen by about six dollars, to $140." (via Dave Pell)
8) Russian scientists find "unclassifiable" bacteria in Lake Vostok Yes, that Lake Vostok. (via Bora Zivkovic)
9) A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years (Science)
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