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July 2010

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nice-looking Ubuntu netbooks from System76 - OMGU
Abbott wants to micro-manage the power industry - SMH
instead of setting a carbon tax and letting the market work out how best to reduce emissions
"climate change" is 35 years old - RealClimate
fifteen Japanese short stories from the 1920s - Ryunosuke's "Mandarins" [my review]
Oxford Blog update - the Wellcome Collection and The Habit of Art
regulating systemic risk after the crash has bolted - WP
an approach to Fermat's Last Theorem - Fearless Symmetry [my review]
The Great Mortification: the failure of economists - Hedgehog
an update on the Arctic ice - RealClimate
a brief blog writeup - picking berries in Oxford
history, politics, language, religion, wealth and identity - Why Switzerland? [my review]
good sites for following the Australian election - Pollytics - ABC
my brief blog writeup - Europython 2010
the (Australian) Liberal party purges its lunatic fringe - SMH
a guide to London yum cha (dim sum) - WFG
the freight railway system in the United States is an unsung success - Economist
Europe has impressive high-speed passenger rail, but a hopeless freight system
does lyme disease exist in Australia? - SMH
Mongolia between the "white death" and the mining companies - Guardian
London adopts Paris' public bike hire scheme - Guardian
software to be unpatentable in New Zealand - NZCS
UK travel company goes bust, leaving thousands stuck - Guardian
new thinking about the Younger Dryas - RealClimate
the northward retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet re-routed drainage from the Mississippi to the St Lawrence
a writeup, with photos, of my recent trip - Turkey travelogue
this may be a bit rough in places, corrections or feedback would be welcome
Vatican makes "attempting to ordain a woman" a grave crime - Guardian
as far as canon law goes, it's now in the same category as child abuse
young children have a poor grasp of colour differences - SciAm
a childhood at the end of the Ottoman Empire - Portrait of a Turkish Family [my review]
Orhan Pamuk and Paul Krugman wearing bras - IgNobel
boys and girls: genetics and and social learning - Salon - Early Intelligence
NSW schools might get ethics as an alternative to scripture - SMH
European regulators crack down on food claims without evidence - BBC [via BadScience]
things were bad in the UK - and it's not over yet - Guardian
is the US already in deflation? - Krugman - AEI
we have our first guests stay, and go punting - Oxford Blog
rampant anti-Islamism in the US media - Salon
Soros on the EU and the euro - NYROB
something to look out for in Berlin - Stolpersteine [via Marginal]
not guilty for British activists who smashed arms factory - EI
who's right on gold? investors or Indian housewives? - Economist
an overview of global house prices - Economist
on their metrics, Australian property is 61% overvalued
£25m a year willl buy the UK food industry exemption from regulation - Guardian
personal freedom should include the freedom to wear a burqa - Independent
PhD: "digital constitutionalism and the role of the rule of law in the governance of virtual communities" - Suzor
"peak helium" may be a problem - ArsTechnica
the US has been keeping prices unnaturally low by selling down its stockpile
a Mandelbrot lecture with a brief intro to fractals - TED
cow paths and changing tennis styles - IG
Oxford Blog update - exchange rates and relative prices
Physics Envy May be Hazardous to your Wealth - IG [video] - arxiv
the US media on "waterboarding" - Harvard [PDF via WikiLeaks]
it's only torture if done by other governments and/or before 2002...
on the proposal to rename Drosophila melanogaster - HeathenScientist
Drosophila in Hawaii - Far
tea bags don't compost - Telegraph
fifteen small presses and their books - Huffington [via @chadwpost]
opposition in the UK even to a simple "Alternative Vote" system - Guardian
thirty year fixed mortgages at 4.58%, ten year treasuries under 3% - Bloomberg
lessons from East Germany - CWs - Spiegel
Bridges: The Science and Art of the World's Most Inspiring Structures [my review]
mass starvation by financial speculation? - Hari - NetworkIdeas [PDF]
bail the banks and screw the people? - TAE
the Tories may be more progressive on prisons than Labour - Guardian
infectious diseases and intelligence - Economist
an explanation for the Flynn effect?
Dyson bladeless fan - Telegraph [video]

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