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May 2011

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Oxford Blog: in which I attend 30 seminars in a month - insanely eclectic
why Oxford's bicycle infrastructure is so bad - OxfordMail
the decline in the quality of cinema projection - Ebert [via Pharyngula]
how many historians does it take to change a light bulb? - PVF [peer reviewed]
The Elusive Malaria Vaccine: Miracle or Mirage? [my review]
"screenwriters are the unacknowledged legislators of mankind" - RWrld [via RW]
plagiarism is a way of pretending to be an expert - Gelman
so it's hardly surprising climate change denialism is rife with it
my book reviews have been purged from Google in favour of a duplicate site - example1 - example2
this is (so far) only affecting some of my reviews, fortunately
correlation madness: "is smoking weed bad?" and the US monetary base - MacroB
Ed Glaeser and the triumph of the city - SquareGlasses
stupidity in the Australian debate on carbon pricing - Crikey
the case against the em dash - Slate [via @RipOffRed]
these are one of my major vices
a novel of dream and story in medieval Cairo - The Arabian Nightmare [my review]
homes are not investments - SMH
an interview with PJ on the history of Groklaw - OpenSource
do bikeways increase property prices? - Crikey
but who'd trust a real-estate agents opinion on this?
Bob Gould has died - SMH
the ugly side of Apple's walled garden - Guardian
A.B. Yehoshua's novel about a long Sephardic Jewish lineage - Mr Mani [my review]
my Oxford blog update - missing food
review of Changing Planet, Changing Health - RealClimate
Australia's domestic spies get sweeping new powers - SMH [via StephenM]
open access in scholarly publishing - Oxford [audio]
the politics of means-testing welfare in Australia - SMH
Attenborough warns about CGI - Independent
will younger Palestinians support a one state solution? - Dissent
Neanderthals may have survived to 28500 BP - SciDaily
my Oxford blog update - Israel, Palestine and the Mahabharata
Tesco sells the strangest things - Tesco
I'm sure this is going to fly off the shelves if they put it next to the bodice-rippers
my Oxford blog update - Oxford is full of geeks
the challenges of regulating the cloud - CommCham [PDF]
what Australians actually earn - ABC
"the median earnings of all employees is $44,146 per year"
a collection of Primo Levi's short stories - A Tranquil Star [my review]
Ireland can still let its zombie banks die - IrishTimes
it's not safe to take newborn babies out in trendy parts of NSW - News
whooping cough vaccination rates have dropped too low
don't give up on the printed book yet - Independent
Sydney's cultural demographics - JPG
kooky climate change deniers - Guardian
auction the World Cup on eBay - Economist
capital punishment for Goldman Sachs? - RollingStone [via RW]
Bulgakov's short stories - A Country Doctor's Notebook [my review]
Vader announces killing of Obi-Wan - GET
Oxford Blog update - 9 Thermidor and the Origin of Life
Robespierre on a pumice raft?
Asian-American overachievers after school - NYmag [via PatrickIp]
it seems maritime rescue laws don't apply to refugees - Guardian
should doing a linear regression require a permit? - Cosma
fun Shirley Jackson "domestic", The Night We All Had Grippe - LOA [PDF]
Javier Cercas' novel of the Spanish Civil War - Soldiers of Salamis [my review]
housing regulation: German, Swiss, Irish, and Australian - PolicyExchange
global warming is not good for wheat yields - SciAm
property in the United States: a long-term change in attitudes - Guardian
taxes on land are the "least bad" taxes? - Guardian
the US wants to write New Zealand laws - TechDirt
video of tsunami hitting Sendai airport - Infectious [via RW]
Sexual Behaviour in the Online Male - Salon
US banks try to gut consumer protection legislation - Fortune
May Day in Egypt - BBC [via Stable]
assassination porn - Rex
more on the dangers of smartphones - CNN
I'm not using one (for personal info) unless its encrypted
a review of Walker and Howie's Red Capitalism - Long
Warren Buffett calling for higher taxes on the rich - CNN [video]
time to declare victory and get out of Afghanistan? - Guardian
only in some US states are mortgages non-recourse - Petersburg
"in Florida, lenders have up to five years to file a deficiency action"
Philip Hensher on Harper Lee - Telegraph [via RW]
Jeremy Grantham on the unsustainability of growth - OilDrum - GMO [PDF]
"Tell a Brit you think they're in a housing bubble, and you'll have a discussion. Tell an Australian, and you'll have World War III."
not looking forward to Charles III - Guardian

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