Random links
- China Congress of Billionaires Makes Capitol Hill Peers Look Like Paupers
- "The richest 70 members of China’s legislature added more to their wealth last year than the combined net worth of all 535 members of the U.S. Congress, the president and his Cabinet, and the nine Supreme Court justices."
- Public health: The toxic truth about sugar
- Here's the first sentence: "... Last September, the United Nations declared that, for the first time in human history, chronic non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes pose a greater health burden worldwide than do infectious diseases, contributing to 35 million deaths annually." (Unfortunately to get access to even that first sentence you need a subscription ... and I haven't yet found a non-gated version so non-academic readers may be out of luck).
- Editorial: The real carbon bomb
- Not quite a coal-bad/oil-good article, but makes some interesting points in claiming that coal is worse for the environment in mining than oilsands development is: "... mountain top coal mining in the U.S. has already disturbed 10 times more surface area than current oilsands development and will mine more area than oilsands developers can ever exploit in the lifetime of the resource."
- Why Do Innocent People Confess?
- An interesting read, not only for its analysis of why people might confess but also for its description of some of the police tactics that can lead to false confessions. I'd argue that it also demonstrates the need for things like a statute of limitations.
- Dr. Edward Kruk: ‘Sole Custody System Tailor-Made to Produce Worst Possible Outcomes’
- "More recent studies… have found not only that EPR (Equal Parental Responsibility) is not harmful in high-conflict situations, but equal parenting can ameliorate the harmful effects of high-conflict: a warm relationship with both parents is a protective factor for children in high conflict families." Also seems to eventually result in reduced conflict between the parents eventually per the primary study the article analyzes.