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October 2011

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surely the Church of the Nativity should be a _possible_ UNESCO World Heritage site - Guardian
more folly from Cardinal Pell on climate science - Monthly
I may read everything except horror fiction and theology, but my theology is vastly superior to Pell's atmospheric physics
Keynes on Marx and Das Kapital - Oxford Blog
Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology [my review]
a Climate Data Guide - UCAR [via RC]
starting to use the Bodleian Library - Oxford Blog
cartoon explanation of the Oxford comma - FB
an interview with David Attenborough - Guardian
Graeber on the occupation of Wall Street - NakedCapitalism [via Tozier]
Iain Pear's novel of Restoration Oxford - An Instance of the Fingerpost [my review]
on Steve Jobs - Stallman
Spielberg has traduced Tintin - Guardian [via RW]
children's toys aren't what they used to be - Cracked [via RW]
the Normans win the Battle of Hastings every year - EnglishHeritage
surely Elizabeth Bennett isn't the best parallel to Lin Daiyu among Jane Austen's characters? - OJS
a guide to some of Oxford's libraries - Cherwell [via @SophiaWoodley]
natural genetic engineering and the read-write genome - Evolution: A View from the 21st Century [my review]
the evidence for extensive RNA-editing in humans is weak - GenomesUnzipped [via @lizbatty]
how marriage and relationships are changing - Atlantic
the logical consequences of giving embryos full human status - AJBioethics [PDF]
Unix and C are still going strong, but RIP Dennis Ritchie - Wiki
Google is good, but it doesn't get platforms - Plus
my Kindle crashed when I tried to open a PDF of Kallenberg's Foundations of Modern Probability...
an interview with Terry Pratchett - BB
no water supply without a driver's licence?! - IBT
Michael Lewis on state and local government debt in California - VF
Margate sounds like a grim town - Independent
Manchu is dying - Economist
I'm having trauma upgrading my netbook - Plus
what does Greece need 400 M1A1 Abrams tanks for? - DefenceGreece [via Magpie]
no use defending Chios from the Turks, and overkill for cowing Albania or the country which must not be named... invading Bulgaria?
got a Kindle, now downloading much of ebooks@Adelaide - Adelaide
I bought six print books today too!
defend marriage from sharks! - Onion
my review of Coherent Stress Testing appeared in Danube Law and Economics Review, Issue 3(2011) - Danube
even the IMF thinks inequality is bad for growth - WP
etymology of "that barbarous relic" - BarryPopik [via Marginal]
how Niels Bohr got rid of three Nobel Prize medals - NPR [via EdGerstner]
an issue on Iceland - WordsWithoutBorders
Jan Morris' potpourri - Oxford [my review]
how to help statistically illiterate judges and juries? - Guardian
"in case of fire, exit building before tweeting about it"
only in ten US states are home loans non-recourse - WSJ

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