FREAK-est Links

• Children in Armenia are now required to learn chess at school.
• For New York taxi drivers, economics is always on the mind.
• Cost benefit analysis of actions from the movie Star Wars.
• Royal wedding to add £1 billion to UK economy.
• 120 years later, an uncensored version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is published.
• Professor Charles De Brabant on why luxury companies should be run by peasants.
• Do urban environments require bigger brains?
• We might have the biggest gold reserve, but not per person.
• Recession cut Greenhouse emissions by 5.6 percent in 2009.
• USDA gives West Virginia University $4.7 million to fight obesity.