April 2014
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the UK government subsidises shotguns and grouse moors -
Monbiothow much does cycling cost? my own figures -
Oxford Blogadd goannas to Australia's dangerous wildlife -
SouthImage(cows kill as many people in the UK as all of Australia's "dangerous" animals put together)
a novel of murder and everyday life in a Parisian banlieu -
Bar Balto [my review]more Australian government stupid on climate change -
Guardianxkcd: "defending a claim by citing free speech is the ultimate concession: you're saying that the most compelling argument for it is that it's not illegal to express"
De Vulgari Eloquentia - a board game about the creation of modern Italian! -
BoardGameGeek [via Yasmin]nice intro to menstruation and foetus-mother conflict -
Quora [via Phil]Manchester City Council's website until recently classed cycling under 'Crime, antisocial behaviour and nuisance' -
Mancunianif a CPU cycle took a second, disk IO would take a month -
GoogleDocswhat happened to Tom Lehrer -
Buzzfeed [via Matty]Ben Goldacre on the Tamiflu saga -
Guardian"We cannot make informed decisions about which treatment is best while information about clinical trials is routinely and legally withheld"
A Four Billion Year History -
Oxygen [my review]the Social Progress Index -
SPImperativedefintely a better indicator of countries I'd like to live in than per capita GDP
Paris' abandoned railway -
BBCIranian dowries are out of control -
GuardianBritish cities are terrible places to walk -
Guardianscaling up family planning in Ethiopia -
Lancet [via @HansRosling]not much is known about marsupial lions -
Monbiotthe danger of out-of-context classical quotations -
NYT [via @KatExe]Adrift in the American Century -
After Suez [my review]in praise of Joanne Rowling's Hermione Granger series -
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