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In lots of US cities, violent crime peaked in the 1990s and has been falling ever since. Freakonomics says it was because lots of would-be crims got aborted instead. Others say it was because of broken-windows crime fighting policies like those of ex-NY mayor Rudy Giuliani. This Mother Jones article says it was actually due to mass lead poisoning, largely from leaded petrol. (via Marco)

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Feels like a sign of the times: the Aussie Bureau of Meteorology had to add a couple of new colours to its forecasting map to represent previously unreached temperatures of over 50ºC.