Science Fictions has a podcast on antidepressants. Paywalled, but in the few minutes I heard them report a study from Cambodia that showed depression decreasing if you gave someone a cow. They doubted this would scale and work in London.
However, More Cows, More Wives - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good agricultural surplus, must be in want of a wife.
Two Is Already Too Many A Works in Progress essay on declining fertility, with special reference to South Korea. I have previously linked to an article that showed that subsidising having children had no effect there, but this argues the near-opposite. The subsidies partly work, but South Korea's problems are so extreme that they don't begin to solve them. I think convincing.
Earl Wajenberg put up a link about The Bible and Slavery
A book group member sent a bunch of links from robotics companies, with video of what they can do.
DYNA Robotics - Commercial-Grade Robots for Real-World Automation
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Rodney Stark had some different details on anti-slavery--I should look those up.
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