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March 2011

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gender stereotypes in toy advertising - AchillesEffect [via RW]
Antony Green on the three-way fight over Balmain - ABC
I'm glad I went to the trouble of voting from Arusha
insurgent Germans in St Louis in 1861 - AmScholar [via LL]
there aren't actually many neologisms in Lord of the Rings - LL
the confusion that is climate change denial - ABC
"if there was a real case against a significant human influence on climate, why is so much of what passes for public debate based on fabrication?"
Richard Stallman is not a fan of smartphones - NetworkWorld [via OSWALD]
backlash in the Netherlands over banker bonuses - Guardian
why are the only stories about Japan about the reactors? - Guardian
the other effects of the tsunami are in many ways much more significant
The Biology of African Savannahs [my review]
the US Congress wants to decide climate science by decree - Nature
Climate Change and Climate Modeling [my review]
a desperate atempt to keep the UK housing bubble from deflating - Telegraph
local councils will contribute up to £70,000 for borrowers!
tsunami propagation modelling - NOAA [via TTao]
Chile gets much bigger waves than the Philippines
an economic history of modern Iceland - PAE [PDF]
what the Dr Seuss books were really about - BuzzFeed
earthquake updates - BBC
why the Tories hate speed cameras - Guardian
water under glaciers can flow uphill! - RC
a documentary about the financial crisis - Inside Job [my mini-review]
catching up with an old friend - blast from the past
criminal prosecution in France over a book review - NYT
Animal Behavior in East Africa - Portraits in the Wild [my review]
from Raj orphan to barrister and judge - Old Filth [my review]
the problem isn't email, it's Exchange - BSDly [via OSWALD]
geothermal colours around Dallol volcano, Ethiopia - SwissEduc
children make parents delusional - Time
on the front line in Ras Lanuf - CNN [via @NewtonMark]
Changes in Egyptian Society from 1950 to the Present - Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? [my review]
Australian hysteria about a carbon tax is ridiculous - ABC [via Ethos]
the only thing that makes Obama look good - Guardian
Krugman tries to make Minsky neoclassical - Keen
after the Sauds? - CT
Terry Tao on how to read mathematics - Buzz
a documentary about the US school system - Race to Nowhere
climate change deniers claim the sun is made of iron - BCL
turns out the big bad IPCC "adopted the consensus opinion of a hydrogen-filled Sun"
satellite launch failure sets back aerosol measurement - RC
why is property such a dangerous investment? - Economist
4 degrees warmer: when will it happen and what will it mean? - RoyalSociety [via RC]
reconstruction after Chile's earthquake a year ago - Guardian - comment
in Australia, BNP-style racism is included in the Coalition - ABC

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