January 2016

Turkey is becoming an authoritarian one-party state - Spectator

human-hyena friendships in Harar - Azimuth

Jamie Love has spent 20 years fighting for drug access for the poor - Guardian

"small change" - a stone currency up to 3.6 metres across and 4 tons in weight - Wikipedia

did monkeys raft across the Atlantic from Africa to South America? - BBC

Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945 - A Writer at War [my review]

have computers finally conquered Go? - Nature [via Phil]

a Norwegian take on the classic English murder mystery - The Human Flies + Satellite People [my review]

"a casebook and a manifesto" - The Fractal Geometry of Nature [my review]

in Disney's modern princess movies, men do most of the talking - WP

it's a lot cheaper for Britons to become Australian than vice-versa - Economist

And Other Myths About What You Eat - The Gluten Lie [my review]

the difficulties in translating a six line Brecht poem - PoetrySchool

how kindergarten teaching has been changing (a US study) - AERA [via Visible]

after 70 years, Sydney Uni's Transient Building is no more - Instagram [via Matty]

why is it so weird? a potted history of the English language - Aeon

the gift of an unhappy ending - DanishWay

the legal framework of a British exit from the EU - ConUnit

a description of my commute - OxfordBlog

standing-only escalators on the London underground? - Guardian

David Bowie's love affair with Indonesia - JakartaPost

going too far in praising children for effort - QZ

a comic historical novel about Gauss and von Humboldt - Measuring the World [my review]

humour against fascism: Hungary's Two-Tailed Dog - Guardian

when too much evidence can be a bad thing - PhysOrg

the case for teaching 5-year-olds philosophy - TechInsider [via VisibleChild]

IPv6 reaches 10% deployment (Google figures) - ArsTechnica [via JP]

children from wealthier families are less generous even in preschool - WSJ - SAGE

container ships are getting even bigger: US ports are scrambling to get ready for them - IBTimes