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Last update: 17 May 2012 (RSS, twitter)

Chinese real estate unravels - Chovanec [via MB]

Internet communities differ in their epistemic robustness - Atlantic [via RW]

the writings of women and men who travelled together - Travels in Tandem [my review]

London inequality: Canary Wharf and Tower Hamlets - Bloomberg

reds under the bed scare campaigns seem a little dated - Vine

a tornado in Oxfordshire!? - Guardian

I could so do a PhD in "Undeclared" - xkcd

Nina Berberova's stories of 1930 Paris - Billancourt Tales [my review]

the social and political rifts in Greece widen - Guardian

a personal view from Pakistan of the 1971 war - Chapati

steal $700,000, get a $8,000 fine - BrisbaneTimes

why do white-collar criminals so rarely get prison sentences?

the UK banking industry goes after BOE governor Mervyn King - Telegraph

updated risking raises price of Japanese nuclear power by ~50% - Reuters

updates on Egypt - Informed

David Attenborough is still going strong - Guardian

I recommend his autobiography A Life on Air

bits of West Oxfordshire are going red - Guardian

and the Conservatives have no wards in Oxford city at all

the bears are circling Australia - CNBC

but how probable are these worst-case outcomes?

new depths of stupidity in climate change denial - Guardian

the French housing bubble - Telegraph

why Big Macs are cheap in Argentina - Slate [via Suzor]

nice summary of new work on how ice ages end - RealClimate

BBC and Discovery Channel remove climate change from Frozen Planet - Huff - Tele

for how many other documentaries does the BBC segregate one epsiode?

Stefan Heym's novella - The Queen Against Defoe [my review]

middle managerialism infects Sydney Uni - NewMatilda

contagion reaches the Netherlands... - Independent

save money by not using stupidly clueless "procurement experts" - BadScience

I didn't realise the Daily Mail's fascist roots go back so far - Indymedia

High Court upholds iiNet victory in copyright case - Suzor

Ismail Kadare's novel - The Palace of Dreams [my review]

drachma clauses in loans to Greek firms... - Ekathimerini

a severe demographic shock is coming in China - Economist

CIA murder-by-drone is completely counterproductive - Salon

they should just ban _all_ taxis from bus lanes - Guardian

German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German [my review]

the UK's national cycle network is maintained by charitable donations?! - Sustrans

why don't we move the motorway system to the same funding basis?

PHP is fractally bad - Veekun

if it's ok to prohibit someone flying because they're not Jewish... - EI

A History of Wales + The Making of Wales [my review]

Per Olov Enquist's novel of labour unrest in Sweden around 1910 - The March of the Musicians [my review]

Scottish buyers were told wallabies hate swimming... - BBC

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