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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Assorted Links

  1. The Future of Science 2021

  2. Measuring racism with Google search (the paper shows that Barak Obama lost 3-5 percentage points of the popular vote in 2008 because he is black)

  3. Call for papers: Convergence special issue on mobile media in Brazil

  4. Announcement of Congestion Pricing in Bogota

  5. The Greater Tokyo Area, as compared to the UK

  6. The one-second film festival held by Montblanc

  7. An interactive map showing oil production by country from 1960 to 2010 (via The Map Room)

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