<?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://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2015/Klingcomplicated.html" target="_blank">Arnold Kling&#8217;s review of Complexity and the Art of Public Policy</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7654" target="_blank">Are some diets mass murder</a>? HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/EricCrampton" target="_blank">Eric Crampton</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">&#8220;<a href="http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/01/intelligence_ma_1.html" target="_blank"><em>Social</em> conservatism correlates with lower cognitive ability test scores, but <em>economic conservatism</em> correlates with <em>higher</em> scores</a>.&#8221;</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/01/lead-and-crime-some-new-evidence-century-ago" target="_blank">More on lead and crime</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/01/risk-and-litigation?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/home_of_the_unbrave" target="_blank">A risk averse culture</a>. HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/EricCrampton" target="_blank">Eric Crampton</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://clubtroppo.com.au/2015/01/02/contraception-and-the-underclass-debate-from-keith-joseph-to-gary-johns/" target="_blank">Welfare conditional on birth control</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;">&#8220;<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-world-will-speak-in-2115-1420234648" target="_blank">We may regret the eclipse of a world where 6,000 different languages were spoken as opposed to just 600, but there is a silver lining in the fact that ever more people will be able to communicate in one language that they use alongside their native one.</a>&#8221; HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill" target="_blank">Steve Stewart Williams</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9403442/bob-dylan-and-the-illusion-of-modern-times/" target="_blank">If you want to feel older, read this</a>. HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/rorysutherland" target="_blank">Rory Sutherland</a></li>
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