Worth Reading: Highways, Ending Poverty, and the Dangers of Sitting

A few of the recent pieces I've liked:

Travis Saunders at the Scientific American Guest Blog: Can sitting too much kill you?

Tanya Snyder in Streetsblog Capitol Hill: Actually, Highway Builders, Roads Don't Pay for Themselves

Tina Rosenberg for the New York Times' Opinionator: To Beat Back Poverty, Pay the Poor

Ilan Greenberg in Guernica: Murder Music ("Jamaica's dancehall music is being blamed for the country's violent attacks on gays. But there are many who don't see the music as homophobic, only the battle cry of a changing nation.")

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