October 2012

cycling in Münster - SUNYSB [via DavidMorrison]

coming of age in a small town in Norway's far north - Alberta and Jacob [my review]

massive hurricane striking the US north-east - WunderBlog

Masters: "a 50% chance that Sandy's storm surge will end up flooding a portion of the New York City subway system"

if you're rich enough, you're allowed to poison workers - SMH

Vladimir Nabokov's forgotten gay brother - Salon

I have packed a box of books so heavy I can't lift it: does this prove that I am God or that I can't be God?

a tour of European detective fiction - Guardian

Greek fascists have infiltrated the police - Guardian

from 300 to 4000 in the last twenty years: atheism on the rise in Ireland? - IrishTimes

bleak negative equity stories from Ireland - IrishTimes

Mervyn King on twenty years of inflation targetting - LSE [audio, video or PDF transcript]

refuting more junk science on climate change - Guardian

too much technology for children? - Huff

improving wireless speeds: coded TCP - ExtremeTech [via Esdaile]

a blackly comic tragedy of the Holocaust in Prague - Mendelssohn is on the Roof [my review]

building Babbage's Analytical Engine - Guardian

safer to be a mafia boss than a scientist in Italy - BBC

the anti-regulatory ideology of UK conservativism - Monbiot

a family history: hunger in an Indian village - Bloomberg

a really stupid French idea: pay-to-link - Guardian

the Salt Lake Tribune endorses Obama?!? - SLT [via Mertz]

pick the real paper: arxiv versus snarkiv - Snarkiv [via @MadeleineCule]

China moves towards a market in carbon emissions - Bloomberg

Mongolian bone factories - AnthNews [via claird]

how airline baggage tags work - Slate [via claird]

a randomly generated mathematics paper is accepted by a spam journal - ThatsMath [via RichardEveritt]

poisonous weapons and war crimes - ChicagoTribune [via Hari]

there is no data for Oxford in the Great British Public Toilet Map - GBPTM

how to talk to little girls - Huffington [via RoseanneB]

Australia's energy is becoming less carbon-intensive - Age

the prince can continue to meddle in secret - Guardian

it's important that the monarch be neutral, so any evidence that they might not be must be covered up

signatures versus seals - LL

Norodom Sihanouk has died - Guardian

misogyny on Australian radio - SMH

George Szirtes on translating Krasznahorkai and Marai - DublinReview

California moves towards open access textbooks - Atlantic

Eric Hobsbawm has died - Guardian

Iceland still wants to join the euro - BW

why using pensions to fund the housing bubble is a bad idea - TimHarford

Geoffrey Pullum demolishes Strunk+White - Chron

"trivial don't-do-this prescriptions by a pair of idiosyncratic bumblers"