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August 2012

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Sydney Anglicans can now submit to their husbands - NewMatilda
who will drag these blustering priests into the 21st century?
beware half-empty glasses - xkcd
love and politics in an Indian research institute - Serious Men [my review]
Introduction to Climate Modelling [my review]
moving to Alice Springs - Inside
web version of Richard Burton's Thousand and One Nights translation - Adelaide
Le Guin on literature versus genre - BookViewCafe [via PassiveVoice]
in the UK, Volleys cost £40! - Dunlop
two cultures of mathematics - Gowers [PDF via TT]
UK households held in the coils of the property snake - BBC
the BBC's consistent anti-Palestinian bias is quite overt - EI
anchovy prices up, salmon prices down - Guardian
patents make it possible for all smartphones and tablets to be illegal - Guardian
a South Korean court blocks sales of a range of Apple and Samsung products
some proper questioning of Australia's likely next prime minister - ABC
the housing bubble in the Netherlands - Reuters [via MB]
mortgage debt at 105% of GDP...
publishing via app is not the way of the future - TechReview [via PhilG]
"curvy women pass skinny ones in self-confidence at age 29 and never look back" - OkCupid
a photosynthesis-like process in aphids? - Nature [via JWZ]
Kasparov on his arrest at Pussy Riot trial - WSJ [via JWZ]
will community food banks replace government assistance? - Guardian
problems for shipping as the Mississippi runs low - NBC
surreal realist stories from 1943 France - The Man Who Walked Through Walls [my review]
our Olympic experience - Oxford Blog
4 Corners looks at Julian Assange - ABC
alternative metrics for extreme weather - RealClimate
"Hoerling and Mass are assuming that all effects of extremes are linear, which is very unlikely to be true"
selling off school playing fields to make a profit - Guardian
the finances of the Catholic Church in the US - Econ
rhetoric trumps reality on migration and the carbon tax - ABC
Applying Epistemology to Conteporary Issues - What to Believe Now [my review]
will the Guardian, like the Economist, become conservative for the US market? - EI
there are 4 million speakers of Venetian in Brazil?! - Ethnologue
a new report on the economics of Australian power generation - ABC
wind cheapest by 2020, solar by 2030
the Church of England has accepted bigotry for the sake of unity - Guardian
empty planned cities in China - BBC
the Swiss National Bank is worried about a housing bubble - Bloomberg
slightly technical lecture on climate and "the Arctic paradox" - YouTube
"economic" refugees to Australia come from China and India by plane - GlobalMail
why do primary school children need to know Roman numerals? - Guardian
why not insist that they understand what a group is, instead?
nightmare cloud hacking story - Wired
Mervyn King looks at the role of banks in the light of 2008 - BofE [PDF]
one of the central bankers who seems to be serious about learning from the crisis
data scientists are statisticians - Cosma
"although referred to as an Italian dialect, Venetian is in fact a separate language" - Wiki
China's demographics is following Japan's twenty years ago... - MB
is the Swiss currency peg sustainable? - ZeroHedge
the conservative argument for gay marriage: "marriage is conservatising" - PinkNews
why is a Green politician calling for lower power prices? - ABC
The Story of a Crime: the Martin Beck Series [my review]
when the Kochs can buy Inhofe, we have a problem - Monbiot
if population geneticists thought like economists... - mad ideas

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