Here are the week’s best links we couldn’t get to on All Things Consider:

1. You think you’re going to have a tough time finding a job after graduation? Youth unemployment rates in Greece and Spain have hit 50%.

2. Sociological Images has an interesting post about what segregation looked like geographically in Durham, North Carolina circa 1937.

3. This past Thursday was International Women’s Day. Here are a few good pieces on women’s education, women’s global health, and how women across the globe marked this day.

4. The “Kony 2012” campaign went viral this week, and received praise from our own Lauren Opatowski. But in the past few days, it’s also received a fair amount ofcriticism.

5. A disturbing story of Trayvon Martin, a black unarmed teenager who was gunned down in a Florida gated community by a neighborhood patrolman; the patrolman has yet to be charged with a crime.

6. This kid and his invention are awesome, and who doesn’t like watching a good old-fashioned Rube Goldberg machine?

7. Scientists at the University College of London have discovered what they are calling the “Qwerty effect:” how we type words on our computer may affect their meaning.

8. The Syrian National Council has rejected former U.N. chief Kofi Annan’s plea for the opposition group to start a dialogue with the Assad government.

By:  Mike Guisinger

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