Nishith Prakash at VoxEU: It pays to speak English: English skills raise wages for some, not all, in India.
Jonah Lehrer in The Guardian: Why We Travel, on the cognitive benefits of travel.
Mark Abrahams in The Guardian: Improbable research: The repetitive physics of Om [via Ludwig]
Suvrat Kher at Rapid Uplift: Computers And Sexism In 1920's Harvard.
A blog like yours should have at least paid notice to Martin Gardner's death a couple of days ago at the age of 95. Incidentally, note that the Om research in Abrahams's article was brought to his attention by Martin Gardner sometime before his death.
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