Random links
- Facts about Hurricane Katrina, and the benefits of regional migration
- From the mentioned paper: "In 2006, the year after the storm, wage and salary income for the average Katrina victim in our sample is roughly $2,200 lower than their matched counterparts. Remarkably, the earnings gap is erased the following year, and by 2008, the hurricane victims actually have higher wage income and total income than control households."
- Would You Report Your Rape?
- A collection of tales assembled by Andrew Sullivan
- Sleep Scientists Want Your Workdays to Start Later
- From the cited press release: "Respondents slept an average of only 6 hours when starting work before or at 6 a.m. and 7:29 hours when starting work between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m."
- Brass versus stainless steel
- "a reminder of the often ignored fact that brass is bactericidal, while stainless steel is not"