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7.06.2013

Weekend Links

1) "Exposure of children to toxic lead, and the subsequent declines in IQ and earning potential, costs the developing world nearly $1 trillion annually" (via Yaniv Stopnitzky)

2) More evidence on the long term health impacts of in-utero radiation exposure

3) On sustainable (or at least resilient...) concrete

4) Global forced displacement / migration is at an 18 year high (via Thomas Dreesen)

5) Deadline to submit to Scientific American's editorial intern program is July 8th (via John Matson)

6) "We suggest that cultivated flowers are rewarding because they have evolved to rapidly induce positive emotion in humans" (via Michael Balter)

7) Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households (NBER via Amir Jina)

8) The Anti-Science Climate Denier Caucus (via Oceans at MIT)

9) Using quant text analysis to advance the "geek" vs. "nerd" debate
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