Some things of note:
1) Blogger and frequent commenter in this space James Hudspeth sent me this interesting article about how google searches can be used to track disease outbreaks, with information relays that are potentially faster than existing surveillance systems.
2) Elizabeth Pisani, author of The Wisdom of Whores (on my reading list for next month), has a fun and informative blog of the same name. Here is an interesting post from this blog looking at incentives and HIV/AIDS, with a special reference to disability grants in South Africa. Here is our paper on this subject.
3) Spotlight (with a thoughtful piece) on Obama.
4) People are addictive.
5) Be sure to check out the Yale University Insitute for Social and Policy Studies 40th Year Celebration and Conference. I think space is tight, but you can still get a sense of the bill through the papers and slides available via the link provided above. The conference focuses on using experiments to answer important questions in political science and economics, and the papers span a wide range of topics. All of them are super interesting.
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http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/how.html
A neat little movie on flu trends using Google and CDC data.
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