December 2013
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how to really eat like a hunter-gatherer -
SciAm"the BuzzFeedification of the entire spectrum of the media" -
EsquireGombrich takes a critical look at recent archaeological claims about Buddha -
OCBS [PDF]"The entire story presented to us in the headlines is a fantasy, and I feel sad that the only time when my subject makes the news it is because of self-serving hype"
time to start closing urban motorways? -
BBCreading the Herculaneum scrolls -
BBCsome actual research into infant sleep -
ISIS [via Ilana]swear words over time -
Mulethe plight of horses in World War I -
Farthe United States accepts routine cavity searches -
Informedhaiku-search Australian parliament transcripts -
HansardKuLebesgue's Universal Covering Problem -
Baezthe real origins of zero-indexing -
blarg [via Matty]coal power is vastly more dangerous than nuclear -
MonbiotOxford-educated Bhutto scion Bilawal Zardari flexes his political muscles -
Guardianthe American Studies Association votes for an academic boycott of Israel -
ASAthe trouble with snooze buttons -
NYerwhy the Germans can't get enough of English markets -
Poke [video]Piet: a programming language in which programs look like abstract art -
DMMbrief Breytenbach farewell to Mandela -
Harpersweighing dinosaurs on the cheap -
SVPOWa first-hand encounter with the Ugandan nostril tick -
Guardiana rap introduction to BGP and an OSPF movie -
YouTube -
YouTube(for my sins, I once read the entire BGP4 and OSPF2 specs, then RFCs 1171 and 1247)
tool use by crocodiles -
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