February 2013

John Edward Aston, practical chimney sweep - Oxford Blog

the tragedy of the healthy eater - NewEdible [via @KerriRussell]

German novelist Irmgard Keun - TheMillions

Jeremy Grantham on growth and sustainability - BBC [audio]

another homophobic bigot turns out to have something to hide - Guardian

four priests report the UK's most senior Catholic

gender imbalance in the translated canon? - Oxford Blog

white saviour films are fashionable - Salon [via @LuluLandLotusEaters]

nonsense in support of data retention laws - Crikey

useful LaTeX templates - latextemplates [via @PhilArmstrong]

Dutch pragmatism meets Javanese mysticism in 1900 - The Hidden Force [my review]

solar power and off-peak electric car charging - SMH [via @StephenMa]

creepy vintage Valentine cards - ListVerse [via @KerriRussell]

some things have clearly improved in the last century

Robert Graves as love poet of the 20th century - NYer [via RW]

the history of Australian property values - MacroB

psychological differences between the sexes are dimensional, not categorical - RawStory - PsycNet

only Tokyo and Osaka now top Sydney and Melbourne for cost of living - Economist [via MB]

wind now cheaper than coal or gas in Australia - Bloomberg

the cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks - LangLog [via RW]

financial engineering is engineering, not mathematics - EmanuelDerman [via @MarkLauer]

when motoring organsations pushed cycle paths and cycle clubs motorways - RoadsNotBuiltForCars

want to improve care? improve workers' rights and conditions - Guardian

successful predictions of climate science - Azimuth

that's not a conspiracy theory, this is a conspiracy theory! - VerifiedFacts [reload]

using GitHub to manage a house - Wired

Camilla and I use a (non-public) mediawiki setup for this kind of thing

a really nice intermediate text - German Grammar in Context [my review]

Judith Butler's speech on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction movement - Nation

thermodynamics makes carbon capture and storage economically impractical - PNAS

cycling or walking to school improves concentration - AtlanticCities [via @KateBurton]

death from dehydration due to "bureaucratic confusion between the UKBA and Surrey county council" - Guardian

a tale of Oppositional Defiant Disorder - Vice [via @AndrewPam]

the US president can now kill anyone, anywhere, on circumstantial evidence - Salon - TomDancingBug

utility inefficiencies - Oxford Blog

cyclists are the happiest commuters - BikePortland [via MikeGifford]

Power and the Internet - Schneier

Basel looks for regulatory consistency in risk weighting of bank assets - BIS [via MacroB]