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[mindstalk]

cities safer for children than outer suburbs
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-12-27-want-a-safe-place-to-raise-kids-look-to-the-cities

conditional cash transfers help the poor, charity doesn't
http://globalsociology.com/2011/01/11/compare-and-contrast-what-works-and-what-does-not/

Obama as instant gratification president
http://globalsociology.com/2011/01/12/book-review-the-culture-of-the-new-capitalism/


Voyager still working, without being designed to; probe reliability doesn't seem the hard part
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=16407

mouse regeneration gene
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100315161913.htm
http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia/2010/05/the_incredible_healing_mouse.php

Clarence Thomas not disclosing income
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-thomas-disclosure-20110122,0,2413407.story
{didn't disclose wife's think tank income for 5 years.}

amoebas farm bacteria
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/science/25obamoeba.html

we're stealing arctic snow
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/science/earth/25cold.html?ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=all
{jet stream 'fence' weakening, Arctic a lot warmer, cold air and snow
spilling onto us}

developmental psychology of pink princess phase?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/books/review/Paul-t.html
{4-7 year olds believing gender is external, not internal, and enforcing
their identity through clothes and behavior}

Taco Bell sued, taco filling may not be legally beef. Which only takes 40%
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41242132

optical illusions cultural
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/25/cultural-differences-in-cognitive-perception/
{classic 'arrow' line length illusion greatest in Westerners,
non-existent in San. A friend mentions that cats raised in vertical or
horizonal line environments have trouble with motion detection}

beef consumption trends
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/12/10/explaining-reduced-beef-consumption-in-the-u-s/
{1970s peak of 90 pounds per year, now 60. But chicken has soared,
we're still eating more meat. Global correlation with women working,
chicken supposedly faster/easier to prepare.}

Iceland elections invalid
http://grapevine.is/News/ReadArticle/Constitutional-Assembly-Elections-Ruled-Invalid
{no secret ballots, paper instead of ballot boxes? Situation fluid}

Obama legitimating Dick Cheney?
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/18/cheney/index.html

US can't make its own execution drugs
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/01/25/0_execution_drug/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/lethal-injection-sodium-thiopental-hospira

UK austerity and recession
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2011/01/25/austerity_in_england_backfires/index.html
{Tories cut budget by 16%, economy shrinks, Keynesians unsurprised, Tories blame snow}
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/business/global/26ukecon.html

movement to restore child's play. elementary schools don't have recess?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/garden/06play.html?_r=3&ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=all

myth of competitiveness
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/opinion/24krugman.html
http://www.pkarchive.org/global/pop.html
{countries can't go out of business the way companies can; a country that did little trade would be immune to trade competitiveness, and in fact 90% of US GDP is domestic; statistics show that command GNP grows about as quickly as real GNP; Coke and Pepsi are rivals, but US and Europe are trade partners; welfare driven by domestic productivity, and as likely to be helped as harmed by foreign productivity. Bad effects of misallocation of resources, possible trade wars, and backing believers into a corner where they can't listen to real economists -- Clinton's health care plans were put in the hands of a competitiveness believer, who may have convinced himself economists were worthless, since they thought his ideas were worthless. Like creationists and biology/geology.}


TSA failure: dozens of guns smuggled to the UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350295/Steven-Greenoe-smuggled-80-guns-UK-used-Manchester-shooting.html

Montreal urbanism
http://blog.robpitingolo.org/2011/01/urban-canada.html

sociology and 21st century fascism
http://globalsociology.com/2011/01/19/what-is-sociology-for-doom-gloom-and-despair/

Nabokov butterly hypothesis vindicated
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/science/01butterfly.html
but Dead Man's Gulch
http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/2857612.html?thread=54630540#t54630540

federal inquiry says financial crisis was avoidable, regulation was
insufficient
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/business/economy/26inquiry.html

education can cut waste and invest
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/business/economy/26leonhardt.html

space spending has increased, though fallen as share of economy
http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/2857987.html

on SOTU response
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/25/the-ryan-response/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/shiny-lazy-people/

French and European prime-age employment higher than the US (25-54;
student aid and retirement affect the ends)
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/eurosclerosis-then-and-now/

Minutemen shooting of 9 year old girl
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/shawna-forde-trial-will-mainstream-m

Israeli soldiers say they were ordered to cleanse Gaza
http://www.channel4.com/news/filmmaker-tells-story-of-israelis-told-to-cleanse-gaza
http://www.channel4.com/news/israeli-soldiers-ordered-to-cleanse-gaza

chimps flexibly disarming snare traps
http://io9.com/5742064/chimpanzees-are-learning-how-to-outwit-human-hunters
orangutang genetics stable, yet diverse
http://io9.com/5744132/orangutan-dna-offers-a-strange-genetic-mystery

Japan and Urakami Christians
http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2011/01/japanese-attitudes-toward-urakami.html

lack of empathy among the rich and high status; economy of attention
http://globalsociology.com/2011/01/06/the-new-sociopathy/