FREAK-est Links

• A study in criminal signaling: an economic analysis of gang colors.
• Chicken count: at almost 19 billion worldwide, 3 times more chickens than humans.
• A chopstick shortage in China has a company in Georgia slapping “Made in USA” labels on chopsticks, and shipping them East.
• A theoretic physics grad student takes aim at the mathematics of basketball.
• The elephant social network: apparently, it’s just like high school.
• Are smart people getting smarter?