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April 2012

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nice summary of new work on how ice ages end - RealClimate
BBC and Discovery Channel remove climate change from Frozen Planet - Huff - Tele
for how many other documentaries does the BBC segregate one epsiode?
Stefan Heym's novella - The Queen Against Defoe [my review]
middle managerialism infects Sydney Uni - NewMatilda
contagion reaches the Netherlands... - Independent
save money by not using stupidly clueless "procurement experts" - BadScience
I didn't realise the Daily Mail's fascist roots go back so far - Indymedia
High Court upholds iiNet victory in copyright case - Suzor
Ismail Kadare's novel - The Palace of Dreams [my review]
drachma clauses in loans to Greek firms... - Ekathimerini
a severe demographic shock is coming in China - Economist
CIA murder-by-drone is completely counterproductive - Salon
they should just ban _all_ taxis from bus lanes - Guardian
German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German [my review]
the UK's national cycle network is maintained by charitable donations?! - Sustrans
why don't we move the motorway system to the same funding basis?
PHP is fractally bad - Veekun
if it's ok to prohibit someone flying because they're not Jewish... - EI
A History of Wales + The Making of Wales [my review]
Per Olov Enquist's novel of labour unrest in Sweden around 1910 - The March of the Musicians [my review]
Scottish buyers were told wallabies hate swimming... - BBC
ebooks, Amazon and DRM - Stross
"piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $48 Billion"
the World Bank goes open access - ArsTechnica [via TTao]
will local exchange systems take off in Greece? - BBC
Australia has low-doc mortgage fraud too - SMH
could it be 2120 before Melbourne houses return to 2010 real prices? - MB
it took 110 years from the 1890 peak
getting high on old books - WaningMoon
yesterday I visited the Oxford University Press museum - Plus
Spain in the austerity trap - FT
the Wellcome Trust backs open access science, will take on Nature and Science - Guardian
it costs about half a million dollars to run arxiv.org - arxiv
Schopenhauer: "It would be good to buy books if, along with them, one could buy the time to read them."
"Es wäre gut, Bücher zu kaufen, wenn man die Zeit, sie zu lesen, mitkaufen könnte."
when homeopathy verges on murder - ThatsMyPhilosophy
some advice on giving academic talks - Cosma
not a nice Easter Friday present for the UK's working poor - Guardian
Greece is now a humanitarian crisis - EconomyWatch
Oxfam was started to send food aid to Greece, seventy years ago
an overview of the Keen-Krugman stoush - Lainton
Minsky/Keen at least offer a possible explanation for the Great Depression; neo-classical economics doesn't
the "class war" in the US has been raging for sixty years - Guardian
Greece steals from universities and hospitals to pay bondholders - hat4uk
Amazon UK is just a fulfillment service for Amazon EU... - Guardian
when your arguments are hopeless, attack your opponents - RegisterGuard
education in Australia: the Gonski review - Inside
A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty - Poor Economics [my review]

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