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October 2013

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a statistical look at the coming world chess championship - DataDoodlers
Jane Austen as an online multiplayer game?! - io9
Unicode 7 will include Linear A and "Man in Business Suit Levitating" - BabelStone [via Pam]
also "Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended"
a nice bash shell script checker - ShellCheck [via @phaseit]
the true size of Africa - SupplySideLiberal [via Marginal]
the bushfire damage at the Wollangambe and Mt Wilson - FatCanyoners
links between global warming and bushfires - ClimateScience
The claim that "a specific fire event as seen in the Blue Mountains in the last week is not caused by global warming" is nonsense, except with a terribly naive idea of causality.
what's 107 orders of magnitude here or there? - Wikipedia
causal dynamical triangulations: one approach to integrating QM and general relativity - PhysicsMill
knights versus snails in medieval manuscripts - BritishLibrary
DSM-5 as a dystopian novel - NewInquiry
the Google Bus: how Silicon Valley is changing San Francisco - LRB
the role of climate change in the extreme weather events of 2012 - AMetSoc [big PDF]
Facebook is very American: beheadings ok, breastfeeding banned - Guardian
Grothendick's inequality connects to the P/NP divide and Bell's inequality! - TT
an abridgement of the 11th century classic - The Tale of Genji [my review]
will Britain's economy overtake Germany's? - Bloomberg
Using German Vocabulary [my review]
Japan has a celibacy problem - Guardian
Andalusian anarchism is alive in at least one village - Guardian
a free online course on global warming and climate change - Coursera
female fertility doesn't drop off that fast - Atlantic
longish Song of Ice and Fire / Game of Thrones review - NYROB
a nice summary of the sea level chapter of the 5th IPCC report - RealClimate
some lovely PDE visualisations - OxMaths [via @MarkLauer]
living man legally dead - BBC
a review of Lem's Summa Technologiae - LAReview
the US shutdown is a disaster for Antarctic science - Huffington
on the heritability and malleability of IQ - Cosma
a reblog from six years ago, since it's topical in the UK
the truth about Columbus - Oatmeal
understanding the symptoms of the common cold - Lancet
a theory of enclaves - Vinokurov [via Strange]
the United States is divided between Emmaland and Sophialand - StrangeMaps
expertise comes from deliberate practice - FSU
"two thirds of foreign visitors to Cornwall are from Germany, Austria or Switzerland" - Guardian
the evolution of IPCC radiative forcing bar charts - RealClimate
property investment basics - AFR
why does a private company get access to pregnant women in hospital? - Guardian
Lombok volcano responsible for 1257 eruption - BBC

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