Jeff Mosenkis (IPA) posted: "Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. In a new (holiday release?) edition of WormWars (PDF), Miguel, Kremer, and Hicks address some of the critiques made online, as well as the media handling. As Chris mentioned, the new epis" Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action. 
- In a new (holiday release?) edition of WormWars (PDF), Miguel, Kremer, and Hicks address some of the critiques made online, as well as the media handling.
- As Chris mentioned, the new episode of Freakonomics Radio focusing on migration, with Clemens, Tarbrrok, and many others is very good.
- The Council on Foreign Relations is using data visualizations to help track violence in Nigeria.
- Some interesting long(ish) reads for your holiday down time:
- An album made by Malawian prisoners has been nominated for a Grammy.
- Max Plank said that science advances one funeral at a time, and a new paper supports it, finding important new ideas by outsiders spike after a superstar scientist dies. Paper here, Vox article here.
And some alarming new rankings data from Clickhole: 
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