Assorted Links

1. What does the impact of the Syrian war look like from space?
   
   
   
   
2. Raj Chetty has a new experiment that shows how to improve peer review response times. The answer: pay reviewers + nudging  via Giancarlos T. Parady
   
   
   
   
3. London street lamps are being turned into electric vehicle charging points and France will 'ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040' via TSU
   
   
   
   
4. Wonderful 1911 footage of New York City
   
   
   
   
5. Michael Szell draws attention to a call for papers by EPJ Data Science for a thematic series on human mobility
   
   
   
   
6. A 15-min video giving an interesting summary of the largest US health insurance experiment in history - ht Carl Schmertmann
   
   
   
   
7. Maps showing racial segregation in South Africa's biggest cities (2011)
   
   
   
   
8. Using geographic profiling to investigate the real identity of Banksy. There is a nice interview with one of the authors about the paper in the podcast 'What's the point'