Assorted links

1. Google is starting a new company to improve cities
   
   
2. paper - Why the racial gap in life expectancy is declining in the United States
   
   
3. Research Questions in Urban Ecological Sustainability
   
   
4. Einstein on Socialism (ht Pedro Souza)
   
   
5. The anatomy of urban social networks (ht Anna Hushlak)
   
   
6. What is the origin of the word ‘posh’?
   
   
7. Routledge has recently launched a new intriguing  peer-reviewed journal on porn studies
   
   
8. Nathan Yau has done a great job in recreating the 1874 Statistical Atlas of the United States using the 2010 Census data
   
   
9. A great interactive data visualization of urban expansion in Las Vegas

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