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Very politics-heavy bunch of links, this week. This is, of course, a bit of an inevitability, given the elections taking place in the US coupled with the most recenet WikiLeaks release. That said, there are some good ones in there. Particularly enlightening was The True Size of Africa – an illustration of the distortion provided to us all by the continued use of the Mercator projection. That thing ought to be banned, in favor of the Gall-Peters projection!

In any event, hope you enjoy the links!
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Another week’s worth of links for you. Of particular note this week are a two studies: Smarter Teams Are More Sensitive, Have More Women? and Empathy’s failures. They’re both interesting in and of themselves, but they’re also interesting because they demonstrate that our beliefs about how society functions are flawed: the first demonstrates that group intelligence isn’t a simple matter of getting a bunch of smart people together, the second demonstrates a paradox in how criminal punishments are meted out. Have a peruse through and let me know what you think.
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