Afternoon Links — 10.12.10

Ten Renaissance masterpieces available online , in amazing detail.

Heather Macdonald reports on S an Francisco’s attempt to reclaim the public sidewalks from aggressive beggars, the current laws being idiotic.

Matthew Archbold examines the anti-baby science of those who caught between the fact that poor people have more children but consume less and rich people have fewer children but consumer more.

Hollywood and other producers are offering several movies more sympathetic to Christianity than is usual in the movies.

“The urban powerhouses of the next decade” won’t be old huge cities like New York and Mumbai, but cities like Chongqing, China, and Austin, Texas.

“The tide of opinion seems to have swung against the feminist ideal of an equal division of domestic and market work between husbands and wives,” even among Gen Yers, according to an Australian study.

The unemployment rate is even worse than the government reports, according to the Gallup Poll.

Thanks to Maureen Mullarkey for a link.