Saturday assorted links

1. One out of every 15 Mormons is from Brazil.

2. WSJ James Taranto profile of Bryan Caplan.

3. Why are city accents fading in the Midwest.

4. “…we present a deep learning audio-visual model for isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of sounds such as other voices and background noise.”  You’ll have to hold that conversation in a park.  Until the parks are bugged.

5. First chapter of the new Weyl and Posner now available on-line.