<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Jason Collins blog]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://jasoncollins.blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Jason Collins]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://jasoncollins.blog/author/jasonacollins/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[A week of&nbsp;links]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="margin-bottom:12px;">Links this week:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/science/why-has-human-progress-ground-to-a-halt/" target="_blank">Why progress has ground to a halt</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/focusing-behavioral-economics-on.html" target="_blank">Development professionals are biased like their subjects</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://andrewgelman.com/2014/12/05/persistence-schools-failing-story-line/" target="_blank">Are schools failing</a>?</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/december-2014/politics-social-theory-seti" target="_blank">Cato Unbound &#8211; a libertarian perspective on extraterrestrial life</a>.</li>
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