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October 3, 2008

Diversions: Gems, Tunnels, and Religion

Some quick links to a few non-market things on this busy Friday after a crazy week:

• Photos: The sapphire mines of Madagascar (Boston Globe)
• Auto-correlation among car traffic in tunnels (arXiv)
• The evolutionary diversification of religions (arXiv)
• 25 years of conventional data analysis proves worthless in practice (Science)
• San Diego decides to cut all power in rural areas during wildfire crisis periods (SD U-T)
• Letter from sole dissenter in SEC's 2004 decision to allow increased leverage at investment banks (DaytonOS)

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