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March 2013

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a layperson's guide to the recent Holocene temperature reconstruction - RealClimate
the UK's poorest are about to get clobbered from all sides - Guardian
a summary of the Planck Mission findings - Azimuth
"thigh gaps" and other stupidities - Parenting [via @KateBurton]
the UK's failure to act on air pollution - Guardian
how to get coffee stains in LaTeX documents - HannoRein [via @JustineLions]
some different London Underground maps - BuzzFeed [via @AmandaWrigley]
the moped menace in the Netherlands - BicycleDutch [via @lizbatty]
Fieldnotes of a Tropical Biologist - Notebooks from New Guinea [my review]
yes! I support the call for dumber televisions - QuietBabylon
the importance of pointing for infants - Slate [via @PhoenixCloud]
you're five times as likely to die cycling in London as in Berlin - Rings
Linus Torvalds on the US school system - Plus
"I grew up in a country where private schools were for odd people who wanted their kids to learn more than just four languages"
junking ENCODE on junk DNA - Pharyngula
misuse of "primitive", or the platypus fallacy - EvolverZone
a fork in the bitcoin software would be ugly - IEEE
diamonds are bullshit - Priceonomics
Gary Kasparov on Reviving the Spirit of Innovation - Oxford Blog [my comments]
some of the survivors of My Lai - WP [via CT]
administrative emails as free-form poetry - CT
women are people first and foremost, not daughters, wives, sisters, mothers, etc. - BelleJar
A History of the Low Countries [my review]
the last pope was a Nazi, this one was complicit in Argentinean disappearances - WSJ
another journalist caught faking a bad experience with an electric car - Tesla
Cypriot savings accounts to be docked up to 10% - Guardian
is deriving happiness from prosocial spending a pyschological universal? - APA [PDF via GivingWhatWeCan]
Algorithmic Thermodynamics [PDF via Baez]
"Algorithmic entropy can be seen as a special case of entropy as studied in statistical mechanics."
slaves for the dole: legislating forced unpaid work schemes - Guardian
algorithmic rape jokes and object spam - QuietBabylon
contact hours and student engagement - TimesHigherEd
"It is independent study hours that predict learning gains, not class contact hours."
the evolution of insect metamorphosis - SciAm
coal-fired power stations have terrible health costs - EnvHealth
the lunatic Tories are completely out of touch with reality - Guardian
cutting the medical system to fund a capital gains tax holiday?!
biological research problems solved by crowd-sourcing - TopCoder
the US healthcare system is pathological - Time
Fog, Fog Collection and Dew - conference
the top Google hit for "sixth international"
privatising the UK education system - Guardian
the bowhead whale's Corpus Cavernosum Maxillaris - NatGeo
Muriel Spark's novel about 70+-year-olds - Memento Mori [my review]
prejudice against refugees in Australia - Age
concerns about flicker with LED lighting - DigiKey
links between immunity and intelligence - Discover
the physics of heavy metal concerts - arxiv [via @JimHague]
can you trust Amazon reviews? - IEEE [via @MarkLauer]
we are the WEIRD - Pharyngula
J PERS SOC PSYCHOL should be renamed "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology of American Undergraduate Psychology Students"
tensions as Kenyan elections approach - Guardian
"pregnant women and nursing mothers should avoid wild yam" - UMM
things have improved in Africa in the last decade - Economist

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