Guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of Innovations for Poverty Action.

• There are too many twists and turns to quote in the amazing story behind the refugee who brought us Transformers.
• The Canadian CEO who’s saved 200 Syrian refugees and counting.
• The Development Impact Blog has an impressive series of posts by candidates about their job market papers.
  • A career coach who specializes in women’s academic careers wrote this book that came recommended (and remember Pam Jakiela’s special advice for men on the job market).
• The obituary of Larry Colburn, who helped stop the My Lai massacre.
• GiveWell staffers’ personal charity choices for this year (just once I’d like to see “Everything to Harvard Alumni Fund!”)
• Go to school – mob edition. A paper finds positive returns to education for 1940’s Italian-American gangsters:
  

  We find that mobsters have significant returns to education of 7.5–8.5%… Mobster returns were consistently about twice as large as a sample of Italian immigrants or immigrants from all origin countries. Within that, those charged with complex crimes including embezzlement and bookmaking have the highest returns.

  Ungated here (h/t David Evans & Shwetlena Sabarwal)

And to those job candidates who don’t get your first choice, it’s good to have a backup:

Best CV ever. @JohnCUrschel https://t.co/BjGiMZUEsJ pic.twitter.com/o9Y9Rli7jZ

— George Wu (@geowu) December 4, 2016