September 2014
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the history of the West African Ebola outbreak -
VanityFairThe Meaning of 1914: a weekend conference -
Oxford Blogplacing the burden of austerity on the poorest third of the population -
Guardianeveryday life and geopolitics in an Arab Israel village -
Let It Be Morning [my review]Neil Gaiman: "Terry Pratchett is not a jolly old elf at all" -
GuardianAustralia is now the Saudi Arabia of the South Pacific -
Slatethe genesis of Middle Earth as WWI got underway -
GuardianEuropean student exchange scheme may have produced a million babies -
TheJournalpeople cycling in Britain are told to behave in ways totally incompatible with the infrastructure provided for them -
BeyondKerbnice piece on Judith Kerr (The Tiger Who Came to Tea) -
Independentlong background piece on Kurdistan -
NYersatire is dead: Freedom Reduced in order to Maintain Freedom -
ShovelWhy Chinese is so Damn Hard -
Pinyin [via Doug]"Chinese is not only hard for English speakers, but it's also hard in absolute terms."
xkcd, "what if?" and the science of curiosity -
NYerPrecious Petal t-shirt: support fungus beetle systematics and Australian science -
teespringtracking down natural quasi-crystals -
Quantais Arabic a single language? -
OUPthe strange logic of real and complex numbers -
Baez"the longer people spend commuting in cars, the worse their psychological wellbeing" -
BBCthe revival of independent bookshops in the US -
SlateIsraeli intelligence operatives on abuse of power in the Occupied Territories -
GuardianEsther Duflo and randomised trials in development economics -
NYerreading a book from every country in the world -
ReadingTheWorldI've reviewed books written in thirty five languages
end the demonisation of the unemployed, disabled and poor -
Guardian"Clapson had only left his last job to care for his elderly mum, and before that had worked for 29 years. On the day he died he had £3.44 to his name and six tea bags, a tin of soup and an out-of-date can of sardines in his kitchen cupboards."
charting some interesting Oxford statistics -
gov.ukto understand white privilege, try riding a bike -
MoreSaucetools and resources for monitoring Linux performance -
BrendanGregg"Male life expectancy at age fifteen in Russia compares unfavorably to that in Ethiopia, Gambia, and Somalia" -
NYROB"the war in Gaza is a war over the status quo" -
NYROBthe old women of Chernobyl's exclusion zone -
Telegraphwhat would a "good" Chinese economic adjustment look like? -
Pettis [long]GDP has to slow, but household income increase; credit creation remains the great risk to the economy
the Sydney Morning Herald uses Comic Sans on its front page -
SMHthe politics of "genocide" in Cambodia -
NYROBthe case for road congestion charging is straightforward (in London, Sydney, or Oxford) -
Telegraphthe mystery of falling crime rates -
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