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May 2015

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killing gets easier: the rules of engagement in Gaza - NYROB
India's heatwave as a warning for the future - Guardian
when giant spiders and tiny frogs share lodgings - TetZoo
a nice overview of how Dutch cycling infrastructure works - Pushbikes [via @DavidHembrow]
Tony Abbott wants to be able to make Australians stateless, by ministerial fiat - SMH
Maya Lin on the making of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial - NYROB
(I hadn't known she was an unknown undergraduate who won the public design competition.)
Australia takes money from science, research; funds small business coffee machines instead - Bloomberg
why some kids go to prison and others go to college - Alternet
a nice foreword (free PDF) introduces Erasmus and The Praise of Folly - PUP
tech perspectives on screen time vs play time - Guardian
a survey of the benefits of coffee - NYT
Homeschoolers Anonymous: from apologetics to debunking - DailyBeast
mapping the ocean's viruses - Quanta
"the Tara Oceans survey leaves Sullivan confident that the total number of ocean viruses will only be in the thousands"
break into a house, smash up a crib holding a baby - no offence if you do it using a car - StreetsBlog
Roko's basilisk, akrasia and acausal trades - Slate - LessWrong [via Cosma]
how successful was the Eastern European transition to capitalism? - GlobalInequality [via Cosma] - ForeignAffairs
an accessible overview of systematics + biology - Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History [my review]
forget cycle lanes, some towpaths have duck lanes - TreeHugger
Taleb versus Pinker: fat tails and violent warfare - Medium
the importance of visual priority for cycle paths - AltDeptForTransport
black swans and climate change - ThenTheresPhysics
"the parameter space for unexpected events having a damaging impact is significantly greater than for positive impacts"
poverty taxes the mind; scarcity begets scarcity - HarvardMag
it was Winston Churchill who pushed for the European Convention on Human Rights - Guardian
lead poisoning in the US: a political and scientific scandal - NYROB
not only should pre-school not be like school, school shouldn't be like school - Slate
Hope Mirrlees' striking 1926 fantasy novel - Lud-in-the-Mist [my review]
The University of Oxford: A New History [my review]
ten books that changed my life - Oxford Blog
giraffes are not a cycling hazard in the UK, thankfully - Road
debates over the use of computers in mathematics - Quanta
London has roads where a 4-year-old can cycle safely! - @BikesAndBabies
what a real cycling network looks like - ViewFromCyclePath
the different histories of cycling in the UK and the Netherlands - ScienceDirect

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