Daily Data Dump - Monday

High Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Older Swingers. This goes into the "they had to do research!?!?!" category. Older swingers are a "high risk" group, like gay men and prostitutes. Golly, Beav, We’re Historic. I really loved Leave It To Beaver when I was a kid. Religious Extremists Will Inherit the Earth. John Derbyshire reviews the new book Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. I'm looking forward to this book, though I'm generally skeptical of the error bars on any social prediction beyond the 20 year time horizon. Born to be a slave in Niger. This a story from 2005, but from what I gather nothing has really changed in much of the Sahel since then. Slavery is particularly pernicious in Mauritania, where the racialized aspect is pretty straightforward. New Clues Suggest Wet Era on Early Mars Was Global. This story caught my attention because I just found out that Edgar Rice Burrough's first Barsoon novel is going to be turned into a film.