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May 2012

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will Spain leave the euro first? - MarketWatch
running the UK like a private estate - Monbiot
from Ireland to the UK for bankruptcy tourism - Guardian
civil partnership ceremonies must be areligious - Hants
not allowed: texts from any religious tradition, "the presence of a canopy"
the science is clear - Tamino
some excitement as votes come in in the Egyptian election - Guardian
cognitive democracy: complexity theory meets political science - Cosma
"democracy, not for the sake of justice or stability, but as a tool for solving the complex problems faced by modern societies"
"murder porn" is mainstream - OkIGiveUp
an interview with Alexis Tsipras - Guardian
Buddhism and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan - The Karma of Words [my review]
a Greek exit from the euro will be hyperbolic - Magpie
the problems with copyrighting APIs - Wired [via OSWALD]
another fingerprint of global warming: intensification of the hydrological cycle - RealClimate
the social media bubble - TheBubbleBubble
how to be a programmer - Samizdat
forget the Elgin Marbles, Turkey wants it all back - Economist
who are Syriza and Tsipras? - BBC [via Stable]
want a 2nd edition of John Snow's "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera"? - Christies
evangelical Church of England parishes threaten financial exit - Guardian [via Mick]
better measurements of Greenland's glaciers - RealClimate
but the ice-sheet dynamics remain highly uncertain
lessons from the Trio Capital fraud - NewM
Chinese real estate unravels - Chovanec [via MB]
Internet communities differ in their epistemic robustness - Atlantic [via RW]
the writings of women and men who travelled together - Travels in Tandem [my review]
London inequality: Canary Wharf and Tower Hamlets - Bloomberg
reds under the bed scare campaigns seem a little dated - Vine
a tornado in Oxfordshire!? - Guardian
I could so do a PhD in "Undeclared" - xkcd
Nina Berberova's stories of 1930 Paris - Billancourt Tales [my review]
the social and political rifts in Greece widen - Guardian
a personal view from Pakistan of the 1971 war - Chapati
steal $700,000, get a $8,000 fine - BrisbaneTimes
why do white-collar criminals so rarely get prison sentences?
the UK banking industry goes after BOE governor Mervyn King - Telegraph
updated risking raises price of Japanese nuclear power by ~50% - Reuters
updates on Egypt - Informed
David Attenborough is still going strong - Guardian
I recommend his autobiography A Life on Air
bits of West Oxfordshire are going red - Guardian
and the Conservatives have no wards in Oxford city at all
the bears are circling Australia - CNBC
but how probable are these worst-case outcomes?
new depths of stupidity in climate change denial - Guardian
the French housing bubble - Telegraph
why Big Macs are cheap in Argentina - Slate [via Suzor]

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