Econintersect: Every day our editors collect the most interesting things they find from around the internet and present a summary “reading list” which will include very brief summaries of why each item has gotten our attention. Suggestions from readers for “reading list” items are gratefully reviewed, although sometimes space limits the number accepted.
- Astronomers Get a Clearer Look at Supermassive Black Holes at Galactic Centers (Ron Cowen and Nature Magazine, Scientific American) See more beautiful things about space science at GEI News today, here and here.
- Facts and Figures on Incarceration in America (John Light, Moyers & Company) Hat tip to Roger Erickson. The U.S. has 5% of the world population and 25% of the world prison population. If the $50 billion spent by states each year on prisons were spent on education (for 2.5 million prisoners, about 4 million more public school children could be educated. Or the amount invested in each of the 49 million public school students could be increased by almost 8%.
- NSA Reforms: What Will Change, And What Won’t (Dustin Volz and Marina Koren, National Journal) Exactly what did President Obama say today?
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