The Daily Dozen

1. China's one-child policy not only creates a shortage of women of marriageable age, it also creates a shortage of sons for parents. This has created a huge black market for abducted sons. One of the saddest articles I've read in a long time.
2. Judicial Corruption: Two judges in PA sentenced several thousand kids in PA to local detention in exchange for $2.6 million. Terrible.
   
3. The five best image editing tools. Interestingly, three of the five are free.
   
4. Dance your way to old age. "[R]esearch, by Dr Jonathan Skinner from Queen’s University Belfast, reveals the social, mental and physical benefits of social dancing for older people. It suggests that dancing staves of illness, and even counteracts decline in aging."
5. A great travel t-shirt? I've had a fair number of ExOfficio shirts over the years and would heartily recommend them.
   
6. The national average home size is decreasing.
   
7. Cowen on Bailouts: "Tyler says, rightly, that creditors aren't suffering enough." Agreed. More here.
   
8. Late law school grades (> 100 days after exam). One of my profs was incredibly late in getting grades back after my first semester of law school. This is particularly bad because it: 1) delays finding out your class rank; 2) impairs the ability of students to apply for summer positions; and 3) delays a meaningful signal for students who might be better off opting out of law school. This is just wrong on so many fronts. With the incessant work law students are expected to do, is it too much to expect a professor to return grades in a timely manner? At a minimum, professors should pay an increasing financial penalty for every day they are late in returning exams. I guarantee this would fix 95% of these kinds of delays.
   
9. 96% of netbooks use Windows. Yes, but what percent runs Vista?
   
10. Top 10 home office hacks.
    
11. Do men have biological clocks too? Not exactly, but the age of the father may influence intelligence and rates of autism of their offspring.
12. The government's the place to be in a downturn.