April 2011
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the anti-AV campaign is resorting to outright lies
I just got a leaflet claiming Australia wants to get rid of AV
will Mubarak face trial? -
Ahramthe modern Catholic defense of the filioque -
EWTNsolar scheme shows why Australia needs a carbon tax and not ad hoc government subsidies -
SMHDoris Lessing's science fiction -
Locusnewspapers spruik for the real estate industry -
MacroBbusinesses prefer a carbon tax to government micromanagement -
SMHbest Alternative-Vote ad yet? -
imgur [via @StephenFry]Australian treatment of asylum-seekers is brutal -
NewMatildaa mathematician on AV versus FPTP -
Gowers [via RobbieG]it's the clever and financially canny who are defaulting now -
WP [via Patrick]an amusing birds-and-the-bees conversation -
Guardian [via RW]housing insulation program fire risk was a furphy -
CrikeyPhilip Hensher on avant-garde cooking -
Independent [via RW]fascinating life story of a 114-year old who died a week ago -
Yahoothe Irish are emigrating again -
BlastE.O. Wilson and the debate over the origin of altruism -
BostonGreece denies restructuring plans -
BloombergCDS prices and 14% ten year bond yield say otherwise
Sweden worried about IKEA outsourcing to a country (the US) with poor labour conditions -
Salon [via Stable]is MeeGo alive? -
FabCapoI think there's going to be demand for a fully open system
the communists may lose Calcutta -
Guardiandamming the Mekong -
Guardianthe giant catfish may not be so important in itself, but the fisheries are vital in Cambodia and Vietnam
stromatolites in Antarctic lakes -
Wired [via MickP]bicycle helmets, ABS brakes and the Australian nanny state -
MacroBthe Bayesian Way -
CosmaI assume he's read A Fire Upon the Deep
drought is destroying pastoralism in northern Kenya -
GuardianCamerons says immigrants should learn English -
Guardianand all those British expatriates in Spain should learn Spanish, too
a carbon abatement cost curve for Australia -
MacroBrecent gender stereotypes for children -
Smithsonian [via RW]Ladies’ Home Journal in June 1918: "The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. ... pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy"
the first time machine was Spanish -
BBC [via CLaird]US soldiers seven times as likely as UK soldiers to develop post-traumatic stress -
Independenthumanitarian aid by the yakuza -
Independentonly a passing reference to the discrimination against burakumin and Koreans which has to underly the yakuza's existence
some better numbers for the Chernobyl death toll -
NewMatildaCaldicott is off by an order of magnitude or more, Monbiot by two
Switzerland is a Microsoft fiefdom -
Wildeboerskeptical reanalysis confirms global warming consensus -
LAT [via TTao]the Irish consider bankruptcy tourism -
Guardian"bankrupts must wait 12 years before they are discharged from their debts"
a periodic table of the (HTML) elements -
JoshDuck [via RW]an English-language bookshop in Jerusalem is under threat -
GuardianOxford has the least affordable houses in the UK -
OxfordMailFrance has the lowest breast-feeding rate in the Western world -
Guardianridiculous claims by anti-AV campaign in UK -
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