April 2015

~200 years for Greenland warming events to reach Antarctica - RealClimate

Werfel's Musa Dagh: the epic of a genocide - NYROB

Assange pans a book on Snowden - Newsweek

Dutch drivers are just as bad as British ones - AsEasyAsRiding

linguistic and genetic evidence for Australian baobab history - Conversation - PLOSONE

my response to the Oxford local transport plan consultation - Wandering [PDF]

a life's work translating The Plum in the Golden Vase - NYROB

new evidence on the ecology and evolution of dragons - Nature 2015 [via Cosma] - Nature 1976 [PDF]

the UK Foreign Office has deficient Russian and Arabic skills - Independent

visiting academics can't do extended fieldwork without losing the right to UK residence - Times

using genomics and tryptophan to date early events in the history of life - Quanta

will the UK finally do something about air pollution? - Telgraph

bringing up a boy in Sweden - MrFox

California faces the reality of water constraints - NYT

the UK's non-dom remittance tax option is indeed morally bankrupt - Guardian

the US would benefit from detente with Iran - Atlantic

current research into the climate sensitivity - RealClimate - MaxPlanck