December 2014

the best thing I've read on causality in statistics - Shalizi [introducing Pearl]

looking at screens at night screws up sleep - Huffington

repetition in music - Aeon [via Janine]

I am the Very Model of a Biblical Philologist - YouTube

making pedestrians and cyclists share paths is a bad idea - @DavidHembrow

cycling Cowley Rd's "shared space" - Oxford Blog

genetically, African-Americans are closer to Europeans than they are to Ethiopians - NYT

ISIS as a "saddlebag state" - Informed

one of the classic novels of Partition - Train to Pakistan [my review]

there are only four circles here and they don't touch - TwitPic

imagined publicity items: a dystopian vision of 1970s England - Scarfolk

accessible ethnomusicology - Balinese Gamelan Music [my review]

understanding Antarctic sea ice - RealClimate

progress on prime gaps - Quanta

"precision" drone strikes target 40, kill 1000 - Guardian

two different perspectives on the Sony attack - Schneier - Slate

not the first mass killing in Pakistan, and it won't be the last - Dawn

Cuba's extraordinary international medical assistance - Guardian

racial tensions mount in a Rwandan girls' school - Our Lady of the Nile [my review]

cohabitation without marriage on the rise in Iran - RFERL [via Informed]

how the British backed Greek fascists in 1944 - Guardian

interested in climate science? - Princeton Primers in Climate [my review]

a long stay in hospital is a traumatising experience for the vulnerable - Guardian

Matt Ridley lost all credibility with me when he went stupid on climate science - MarkLynas