Danny Yee

Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)

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Last update: 11 March 2014 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)

eating out in Oxford with a baby - Oxford Mommy
some notes on baby moving equipment - Oxford Blog
oil companies cut back on spending - Resilience
gender differences in children's perception of refusals - FaP
a very short guide to recognising famous painters - MetaPicture
why Morwell is burning - SaturdayPaper
the inventor of "Pakistan" - StrangeMaps
British Veterinary Association calls for all animals to be stunned before slaughter - BVA
The First Millennium Refocused - Before and After Muhammad [my review]
a six-year-old learns commutativity of addition and multiplication - Gowers
why Sweden has so few road deaths - Econ
a new documentary about the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 - Guardian
the making of Wallace and Gromit - Guardian
Orthodox rabbinical courts try to tighten their grip on Israeli family law - AlJazeera
a letter to Mr Morrison - SpeakUpForThese [via Matty]
a fun course by Mayo and Spanos on error statistical philosophy of science - StatsBlogs
three-toed and tenured! - Cosma
for nonprofessionals, Warren Buffett recommends index funds - Fortune
nice overview: Climate Change: Evidence and Causes - RoyalSociety [PDF]
the bishop of Oxford's statement on Anglican same sex marriage - ThinkingAnglicans
the wrongness of generational labels - Larbalestier
investing in startups is Black Swan hunting - PaulGraham
a dark comedy of reputation in small-town Nigeria - Diaries of a Dead African [my review]
the tensions of San Francisco's gentrification - Guardian
what the ration packs of different countries' armies contain - Guardian
more vitamin supplements shown to be dangerous - Guardian
"Men using these supplements should stop, period. Neither selenium nor vitamin E supplementation confers any known benefits, only risks."
supermarket claims "today" can mean "six months ago" - Guardian
burning coal mine in Victoria a health hazard - ABC
an old-fashioned approach to moving children by bicycle - Twitter
mathematics-fetishising UK politicians are misguided (and confused by statistics) - Guardian
Discovery Channel fabrications encourage wildlife massacres - Monbiot
paramilitary goons policing Manus Island - NewMatilda
mobile banking apps are miserably insecure - ComputerWorld
(I can't imagine Android apps are any better than the iOS ones.)
plans for Oxford Plain roundabout rebuild criticised - OxCivicSoc [via @lizbatty]
Facebook now supports 56 custom genders - LL
Australian Heatwaves: Hotter, Longer, More Often - ClimateCouncil
another £300,000 of "cycling" money spent speeding up motor traffic - AltDeptTransport
African Union steps in to help flooded Thames Valley - DailyHawk
small children encounter modern art - LostAtEMinor
major eruption of Mr Kelud, 200,000 in East Java evacuated - AlJazeera

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Notes

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Danny Yee