Hominid jaw dredged up by fisherman near Taiwan! Homo erectus? H. heidelburgensis? Denisovan? or WHAT!?

http://www.livescience.com/49588-ancient-human-fossil-primitive-species.html

Middle-Out Economics vs. "TrickleDown/Reaganomics/"Voodoo" Economics and Class in America

http://theweek.com/articles/535236/conservative-obsession-finding-nextapple-wont-help-economy

http://billmoyers.com/2014/12/04/voodoo-econ/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/paul-krugman-voodoo-economics-the-next-generation.html?_r=0


Class:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/business/economy/middle-class-shrinks-further-as-more-fall-out-instead-of-climbing-up.html?_r=0

http://theweek.com/articles/535832/are-republicans-weirdly-hesitant-talk-about-americas-middle-class

Why Early Humans Reshaped Their Children's Skulls

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141013-why-we-reshape-childrens-skulls

Fossils From Unknown Species Of Human Discovered

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossil-teeth-dont-belong-any-extinct-human-species-known

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150122-is-this-a-new-species-of-human

The death of the gold standard

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/01/16/376967946/episode-253-gold-standard-r-i-p

Multimedia fun from The Economist

http://www.economist.com/multimedia

If the world only had 100 people, 7 would have a college degree, and 17 would be illiterate

From the Washington Post:

http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2015/01/06/if-the-world-only-had-100-people-7-would-have-a-college-degree-and-17-would-be-illiterate/

Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions

From the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/upshot/the-measuring-sticks-of-racial-bias-.html?abt=0002&abg=0