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De Vulgari Eloquentia - a board game about the creation of modern Italian! - BoardGameGeek [via Yasmin]

nice intro to menstruation and foetus-mother conflict - Quora [via Phil]

Manchester City Council's website until recently classed cycling under 'Crime, antisocial behaviour and nuisance' - Mancunian

if a CPU cycle took a second, disk IO would take a month - GoogleDocs

do I want to buy a new camera? - Oxford Blog

what happened to Tom Lehrer - Buzzfeed [via Matty]

Ben Goldacre on the Tamiflu saga - Guardian

"We cannot make informed decisions about which treatment is best while information about clinical trials is routinely and legally withheld"

A Four Billion Year History - Oxygen [my review]

the Social Progress Index - SPImperative

defintely a better indicator of countries I'd like to live in than per capita GDP

Paris' abandoned railway - BBC

Iranian dowries are out of control - Guardian

British cities are terrible places to walk - Guardian

scaling up family planning in Ethiopia - Lancet [via @HansRosling]

not much is known about marsupial lions - Monbiot

the danger of out-of-context classical quotations - NYT [via @KatExe]

Adrift in the American Century - After Suez [my review]

in praise of Joanne Rowling's Hermione Granger series - GlobalComment

Tony Abbott is no Menzies - TheMonthly

"A modern web page is a catastrophe" - Usenix [PDF]

another piece on the gendering of pink - Atlantic

"Victorian-era men's clothing was fancy and frilly and elaborate enough to make almost any modern woman look homeless by comparison" (comment)

New Zealand's mandatory bike helmet law estimated to kill 50 people/year - NZMA

also, injuries to cyclists per hour of cycling have increased

how a billion dollars of "degenerate art" ended up in a Munich apartment - VanityFair

Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? [my review]

Singapore is holding a dry water festival - StraitsTimes

a Hollywood film featuring an exposition of the Snake Lemma! - YouTube

Oxford's Mathematical Institute has its lecture notes and problem sets online - OxAcUk

in 1949, more distance in the UK was travelled by bike than by private car - CyclePath

an obituary for Indian writer Khushwant Singh - Guardian

are the Habsburg Empire's borders still visible in Eastern European bureaucracies? - VoxEU [via @phaseit]

Chernobyl radiation still inhibiting microbial decomposition of leaf litter - Smithsonian

reviving an old kind of children's playground - Atlantic

a couple of dozen interesting book reviews (mathematics, children's literature) - Ernest Davis

should Python midnight be false? - LWN

new job title to me: "eukaryotic archaeologist" - Wikipedia

Vietnamese short fiction - Behind the Red Mist [my review]

a Buddhist Economics course - Berkeley [via Pam]

nice picture of the BICEP2 South Pole microwave observatory - NASA [via Phil]

Ethics on Wheels - TransAlt [via AsEasy]

the golden age of the shtetl under Catherine the Great - PUP [PDF]

Seoul is demolishing its expressways: 15 since 2002 - Guardian

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