Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: October 2011

surely the Church of the Nativity should be a _possible_ UNESCO World Heritage site - Guardian

more folly from Cardinal Pell on climate science - Monthly

I may read everything except horror fiction and theology, but my theology is vastly superior to Pell's atmospheric physics

Keynes on Marx and Das Kapital - Oxford Blog

a Climate Data Guide - UCAR [via RC]

starting to use the Bodleian Library - Oxford Blog

cartoon explanation of the Oxford comma - FB

an interview with David Attenborough - Guardian

Graeber on the occupation of Wall Street - NakedCapitalism [via Tozier]

Iain Pear's novel of Restoration Oxford - An Instance of the Fingerpost [my review]

on Steve Jobs - Stallman

Spielberg has traduced Tintin - Guardian [via RW]

children's toys aren't what they used to be - Cracked [via RW]

the Normans win the Battle of Hastings every year - EnglishHeritage

surely Elizabeth Bennett isn't the best parallel to Lin Daiyu among Jane Austen's characters? - OJS

a guide to some of Oxford's libraries - Cherwell [via @SophiaWoodley]

natural genetic engineering and the read-write genome - Evolution: A View from the 21st Century [my review]

the evidence for extensive RNA-editing in humans is weak - GenomesUnzipped [via @lizbatty]

how marriage and relationships are changing - Atlantic

the logical consequences of giving embryos full human status - AJBioethics [PDF]

Unix and C are still going strong, but RIP Dennis Ritchie - Wiki

Google is good, but it doesn't get platforms - Plus

my Kindle crashed when I tried to open a PDF of Kallenberg's Foundations of Modern Probability...

an interview with Terry Pratchett - BB

no water supply without a driver's licence?! - IBT

Michael Lewis on state and local government debt in California - VF

Margate sounds like a grim town - Independent

Manchu is dying - Economist

I'm having trauma upgrading my netbook - Plus

what does Greece need 400 M1A1 Abrams tanks for? - DefenceGreece [via Magpie]

no use defending Chios from the Turks, and overkill for cowing Albania or the country which must not be named... invading Bulgaria?

got a Kindle, now downloading much of ebooks@Adelaide - Adelaide

I bought six print books today too!

defend marriage from sharks! - Onion

my review of Coherent Stress Testing appeared in Danube Law and Economics Review, Issue 3(2011) - Danube

even the IMF thinks inequality is bad for growth - WP

etymology of "that barbarous relic" - BarryPopik [via Marginal]

how Niels Bohr got rid of three Nobel Prize medals - NPR [via EdGerstner]

an issue on Iceland - WordsWithoutBorders

Jan Morris' potpourri - Oxford [my review]

how to help statistically illiterate judges and juries? - Guardian

"in case of fire, exit building before tweeting about it"

only in ten US states are home loans non-recourse - WSJ