1. If you would like to sign, some friends and colleagues have been circulating an open letter of educators against intolerance towards Muslims
  2. In 2013 Facebook used the same amount of electricity as Burkina Faso
  3. Martin Ravallion has a new Economics of Poverty textbook coming out soon, and the website is here
  4. "Hoping to settle the matter, we asked 11 physicists the question, 'What would happen to Endor if the Death Star blew up?' Almost all of them responded right away."
  5. Spaghetti Monster church member wins right to wear colander in US driver's license photo
  6. What's Rachel Dolezal been up to?