<?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;">I have an article at ABC&#8217;s The Drum on the Australian Government&#8217;s Intergenerational Report &#8211; &#8220;<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-06/collins-its-time-to-end-the-demographic-pessimism/6284804" target="_blank" rel="noopener">It&#8217;s time to end the demographic pessimism</a>&#8220;.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://blog.nycep.org/calories-calories-read-all-about-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;The myriad processes that bring in food, convert it to metabolic fuel, and burn this fuel in our cells act in concert to keep our energy budget – the daily paper – essentially fixed in size.&#8221;</a> HT: <a href="https://twitter.com/melissamcewen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melissa McEwen</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/28/early-intervention-you-might-get-what-you-pay-for/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An education intervention that might have worked</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-02/why-asian-americans-will-soon-be-the-wealthiest-americans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why are some demographic groups doing better than others?</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2015/03/04/megan-mcardle/its-complicated-hopeful" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> What makes the current era feel so deprived?</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/health/is-obesity-caused-by-a-carbs-rich-diet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A surprisingly good article on the whether science supports a paleo diet</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/global-flight-family/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The global flight from the family</a>. <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/03/03/history_of_marriage_a_list_of_100_19th_century_marriages.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">And miserable 19th century marriages</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="https://egtheory.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/ipd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A short history of  iterated prisoner&#8217;s dilemma tournaments</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a href="http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&amp;s=MCRFPUS2&amp;f=M" target="_blank" rel="noopener">So much for peak oil</a>.</li>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12px;">And if you missed them, my posts this week:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a title="Introducing Evonomics" href="http://jasoncollins.blog/2015/03/02/introducing-evonomics/">Introducing Evonomics</a>.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom:12px;"><a title="Overcoming implicit bias" href="http://jasoncollins.blog/2015/03/04/overcoming-implicit-bias/">Can government policy overcome implicit bias?</a></li>
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