Weekly-ish list of stuff interesting enough I think it’s worth sharing.

 Awaiting a New Darwin After so many years thinking about and studying evolution, I’d forgotten how bizarre and unintuitive it can seem to even well educated, intelligent people. Also, I love the illustration that accompanies this article:

Still trying to read “Sex at Dawn” without actually killing myself
Sex at Dawn was a huge disappointment.

Do Animals in Chernobyl’s Fallout Zone Glow?
“radiation is less harmful to wildlife populations than we are.”

Justice is not Law, Law is Not Justice
As Benito Juarez put it “For my friends, grace and justice; for my enemies, the law.”

Brooding Cityscapes Painted with Oils by Jeremy Mann

In New Castle, Pa., trying to break free of poverty
Quicksand

The Soul of Student Debt
My student loans scare me sometimes.

The world is running out of soil
Both droughts and heavy precip make this worse. Both are predicted under climate change.

Weekly-ish list of stuff interesting enough to share.

The High Price of Being Single in America.
This should be changed. In the meantime, will you marry me?

Portraits of Albanian Sworn Virgins
Gender, constructed

House GOP shafts rural America, still gets their votes For many in rural America, dems are too associated with patronizing urbanites who have very different views on things like repro rights. And dems do a poor job of countering lies from the right on farm and range issues.

Confessions of an analyst
On being able to tell your story

World population may actually start declining, not exploding.
How is population reduction to a scant 1 billion “literal extinction?”

Data scientists and engineers needed for a weekend datafest exploring money and politics
Using data to help real people, not just advertisers.

These links and more from my newsblur blog.