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February 2015

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Australia has given up freedoms (and a lot of money) for nothing - Guardian
Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 - The Formation of Islam [my review]
blind/non-blind comparison shows gender bias in school marking - NBER
"over-assessment of boys has a positive and significant effect on future achievements and a significant negative effect on girls"
nice overview of linguistic and archaeological evidence for the Indo-European homeland - AnnRevLing
a study of Jewish humour, now in paperback - PUP - Introduction [PDF]
The Red Room: Stories of Trauma in Contemporary Korea [my review]
Oxford cyclists, imagined, actual and potential - Oxford Blog
50 shades of socialist feminism - Laurie-Penny [via Mertz]
drop high quality graduates straight into teaching in poor schools? - Economist
I really should read Magda Szabo's The Door - NYT
"banking has its uses as well as its abuses" - Monbiot
adding hydrofracturing + cliff failure improves ice-sheet models - ScienceDirect
Erich Kästner's classic children's novel - Emil and the Detectives [my review]
don't tell children they are clever - KQED

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