Linkfest 2017-02-24
Damn. Steve Sailer went and wrote something about SlateStarCodex's Cost Disease post that covers pretty much everything I wanted to write.
Ross Douthat has a pertinent reflection on how Milo fits into post-religious social conservatism. Ross also predicts Milo will make a comeback, which wouldn't surprise me either. We shall see.
Irish and German Immigration Waves
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United States % of population added by year and country of origin
Razib Khan retweeted this image from Noah Smith. I agree that this is a powerful and informative graph.
Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions
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Why you should remain wary of educational innovations.
23andMe is looking at the genetics of fertility.
Robert VerBruggen has to point out that understanding that eugenics is possible [trivial even] is quite different from thinking you need to sterilize people against their will.
Book Review: Richard Bauckham, “Jesus and the Eyewitnesses”
Ross Douthat retweets one of Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry's book reviews, further evidence that the Gospels are as credible as any other historical text from the Roman era.
A Beautiful Church for the Poor
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Based on a 2009 report by Philip Schwadel, John D. McCarthy, and Hart M. Nelsen, Matthew Schmitz wonders whether the post-Vatican II changes in liturgy have ill-served poor white Americans. This probably should be read alongside Charles Murray's Coming Apart. Not mentioned in the Schmitz article was this fascinating chart about Latino Catholics in America:
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