January 2014

the Australian welfare system, in perspective - Guardian

speeding texting killer gets six months, will be back driving in a year - StopTheKilling

a street book-reviewer - Twitter

pre-emergency mapping - LWN

school works better with no playground rules - Stuff [via Matty]

Anglo-Saxon medical theory - BritishLibrary

a 1956 Russian compendium, Mathematics: Its Content Methods and Meaning - MAA - Amazon

Bill Gates tackles three myths about progress - GatesFoundation

Gerard de Nerval - The Salt Smugglers [my review]

Alfred Russel Wallace - Letters From the Malay Archipelago [my review]

Hans Rosling poses a nine-question global development quiz - Guardian

why next-gen filesystems btrfs and ZFS matter - ArsTechnica

"Wikipedian in Residence" as job title! - GuardianJobs [via @karinab]

if cyclists without hi-vis are suicidal, motorists in non-hi-vis cars are homicidal

Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent and Intelligence is Wrong - The Genius in All of US [my review]

in 2013, just one of 2000+ peer-reviewed climate papers rejected human global warming - JamesPowell

the UK spends billions each year to make flooding worse - Monbiot

monitoring the status of the UK National Grid - Templar

for a one-year-old, the packaging is the present

just give people money - DeCorrespondent

Pastafarian elected to town board - Patheos

reading literary fiction improves theory of mind - Science

a history of modern Oxford - BritishHistory

David Cameron wants to celebrate WWI and revive the old lie - OpenDemocracy [via Patrick]

a novel about a young woman in post-war Kyoto - The Old Capital [my review]

Britain's suburbs are cul-de-sacs of the mind - CyclingFront

bicycle helmets illustrate complexity of epidemiology - BadScience

an overview of Antarctic ice changes - NASA