Links of interest

Read aguanomics http://www.aguanomics.com/ for the world’s best analysis of the politics and economics of water

1. An update on the 50-year effort to get mercury out of our ecosystems
2. The Straight Dope on DNA testing (don’t make any medical decisions based on it!)
3. Londoners take the piss out of a clueless tourist asking about “where the Thames goes”
4. Investor Risk Analysis: Why Groundwater Matters
5. This 1933 article (“Water, Cheaper Than Dirt”) shows how “full cost pricing” has been an issue for awhile
6. A 1978 film about the last day of “hot lead,” i.e., when the New York Times switched to digital typesetting
7. Are the Russians as easy to understand as R.E.S.P.E.C.T?
8. How AI might take over the world (not entirely fantasy)
9. An introduction to behavioral economics (as compared to neoclassical economics)
10. When people say “learn to code” they don’t mean typing instructions but understanding systems: “Typically the main problem with software coding is not the skills of the coders. The people know how to code. The problem is what to code. Because most of the requirements are kind of natural language, ambiguous, and a requirement is never extremely precise, it’s often understood differently by the guy who’s supposed to code.”

H/T to AM