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July 2012

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India's power system has problems - BBC
blaming the poor is a popular sport - JaneDevin
shifting Tien Shan water run-off from summer to winter would not be good news for Central Asia - Nature
updating ceremonial rules: Oxford students still have to wear traditional sub-fusc to exams - OxStudent
but women can now wear suits and men skirts and blouses
art and rock music versus the Russian state - Guardian
money launderers become ministers while whistle-blowers go to prison - Guardian
Saudi police fire on Shiite protestors in Eastern Province - Ahram
one day this may blow up and oil prices will double
the first Request for Comment was written six months before I was born - IETF
Olympic ticket scam: sell tickets, hope to source them later - OFT
the state of Judaism - Economist
campaigning for the right to spray lead around the countryside - Guardian
civil war tours of Barcelona - Guardian
a murder mystery set in ancient Japan - The Dragon Scroll [my review]
a tour of Didcot A power station - Oxford Blog
Kenya's M-pesa system: a telco becomes a utility bank - FT
guinea worm has almost been eradicated - SciAm
the UK is now funding creationist schools - Guardian
Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air [my review]
is Romania fit to be in the EU? - Guardian
on Brecht's poetry - TheLiberal [via NothingDisastrous]
gutting the UK's social capital: Kensal Rise library - Cherwell - SKRL
sea level rise will remain a concern even if temperatures are stabilised - NatureClimateChange
"There is at present no way to reliably evaluate the upper limits on future sea-level rise."
some talks on Neanderthals and modern humans - Keble [audio]
is PayPal resting on its laurels? - PandoDaily [via RW]
Human Reciprocity and its Evolution - A Cooperative Species [my review]
how to make Oxford a cycling city: close through routes for cars - Oxford Blog
UK government to mandate open access to funded research by 2014 - Guardian
Randall answers "what if" questions in a new weekly extra - xkcd [via Sean]
will Orthodox Israelis be forced to serve in the armed forces? - Guardian
and what about Arab Israelis?
Hungarian fiction is trendy now? - Guardian - DannyReviews
do the Sydney Anglicans' African allies know they're Eysenck supporters? - Loon
libertarianism and the workplace - CT
UK judge rules Saumsung Galaxy Tab "not as cool" as iPad - Guardian
will Apple want to appeal?
fascinating sounding Malayalam novel - Chapati
not yet available on Amazon
new plant species no longer need to be described in Latin - SciAm [via Baez]
in China, social media is a tool of the governing party - TED
does Australia have a housing shortage or not? - AFR
women in Ireland have to carry dying babies to term, or go overseas - Guardian
justice catches up with Argentinean dictators, eventually - Guardian
a new kind of open access journal: Forum of Mathematics, Pi and Sigma - TTao - Gower
Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream - Red Plenty [my review]
the Karakoram Highway remains blocked - Guardian - my trip there in 1999
Saudi Arabia is only just getting mortgages - CrossR
if Americans worked German hours, the US would have no unemployment - Guardian
the state of Indian rural education - Empirical
Simon Jenkins against the London Shard - Guardian
powerful Harvard Medical School class day speech - JAMA [via Heidi]
different approaches to extreme weather forensics - UCAR
stupid anti-science depressingly popular in Australia - Age
censorship in Malaysia - Crikey
a history of Amazon - Nation
a critique of open data as a public good - CT
blinkered history quiz proposed for would-be UK citizens - Guardian

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