January 2012

twitter now censored in Thailand - Guardian

a first-hand account of the First Fleet and the foundation of Sydney - 1788 [my review]

privatising UK state schools - Guardian

I had one of the earliest personal web sites in Australia - RogerClarke

law enforcement in the Texan school system - Guardian [via Monbiot]

academic publishers are hostile to science - Guardian

another nice looking free online course - UChicago Open Climate 101

the human face of unemployment in Liverpool - Guardian

this cruise ship looks a bit worse than "badly listing" - Independent

I think I'm a "threshhold worker" - Economist

change in the UK's ladybird species - Independent

"the exercise of copyright is creating a threat to basic medical care" - UCSF [via OSWALD]

the UK has an Indian chef shortage - Guardian

some people don't like summer - PsyBlog [via @KateCarruthers]

do UK obscenity laws make sense? - Guardian

should the UK call the War Loan? - FT

real house prices in Ireland now down 60% over last 5 years - SherryFitz

methane and global warming: an overview - RealClimate

methane's short lifetime means that its contribution to carbon dioxide is what matters except in the very short term

learning from Finland's school system - Atlantic

maximising shareholder value: the dumbest idea in the world - Forbes

insight into how tobacco companies stop UK regulation - Guardian

Glen Greenwald on Ron Paul - Salon

where to start with modern Korean literature - KTLIT