A bucket of interesting links...

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Because you don't spend enough reading online, here are a bunch of tasty links:

• Why does the long-tail online actually reduce diversity across the overall population?
  
• On the biological underpinnings of morality
  
• Checklists save lives. They're right up there with Science.
  
• The Recession is highly regionalized.
  
• Flying cars! No, really, Flying Cars!
  
• Today is not a good day to be a Major Metro Newspaper. Next week doesn't look good, either.
  
• Death doesn't quite work the way we think it does. No, really - it's not the fall that kills you, it's when your cells start getting oxygen again that does it.
  
• More reasons it's bad to be a newspaper. How much does the printing part of running a newspaper cost? A whole lot.
  
• We Haven't Gone There Yet, by Harry Turtledove. A short story, for free, on the web, brought to you by the publisherTor Books
  
• What If Frank Miller drew Charlie Brown? Only two panels, if you've already seen that one, you should go check out the post-apocalyptic Charlie Brown instead. I promise, there aren't any corny A Boy and His Dog jokes in it. Except for that one.
  
• A really interesting Patrick McGoohan interview, from the 1970s. Includes confirmation of who Number Six really is.
  
• So, there's this guy. And he decides to make music by sampling You-Tube videos. And it's really, really, seriously good. You should watch it.
  
• People are starting to look at the spread of malware via high-density WiFi as an epidemiological phenomenon. This is very interesting.
  
• The Oakland Observatory opened in 1883, and the Chabot Space Center has several Victorian era telescopes. They're throwing a steampunk party on April 18th. For all your aetheric observation needs, eh?
  
• There's this hypothesis, called the Broken Window theory, that if you clean up a neighborhood, crime drops. They recently ran the experiment in Lowell, Mass. Details inside.
  
• Nate Silver, over on Five-Thirty-Eight, keeps posting excerpts from econ articles by the folks at Hussman Funds. In particular, they have two weekly article series that are often quite good.