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May 2013

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Alan Garner and Oxford - OxfordToday
ending the great Australian complacency - Age
would compulsory voting make the UK a better place to live and work?! - Guardian
the Research Execellence Framework and the Department of Paintball Studies - OccamsTypewriter
How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can't Read Latin Yet [my review]
Waxen Wings: Short Fiction from Korea [my review]
42, the Hurwitz automorphism theorem, and the meaning of life - Baez
videos of talks on John Snow, cholera and general epidemiology - JSS
a history of the carronade - Artilleryman
Ngugi wa Thiong'o's memoirs about his British education - BooksCulture [via Ruth]
Britain has lost its wildlife because it is destroying its land - Monbiot
the Great Gatsby in China - NYer
non-technical explanation of Zhang's "close pairs of primes" result - SimonsFoundation [via Baez]
asylum seekers arriving by boat in Australia are more likely to be genuine than those coming by plane - SMH
exploitation and competition racism in the Netherlands - Informed
"the cheapest, slowest, simplest to hand assemble, lowest part count, and lowest-end Linux PC" - Dmitry [via @phaseit]
the bitcoin arms race - IEEE [via @MarkLauer]
bitcoin prices and mining rates will depend on the cost of electricity
D-Wave quantum computation claims still mostly hype - Shtetl
different diagnostics mean French children don't get ADHD - PsychologyToday [via @PhoenixCloud]
for some purposes, Australia is no longer part of Australia - Conversation
could Iran just "excise" its reactor sites from the legislation implementing the Non-Proliferation Treaty?
1200 innocent sites are "collateral damage" in ASIC censorship - EFA
earthworms reduce slug herbivory - BMC Ecology [via TimOReilly]
George Orwell on how to make a cup of tea - BrainPickings [via BetterRead]
a dual language anthology - Twentieth Century German Poetry [my review]
save the world, switch to eating insects - AFP [via @MarkLauer]
"empathy is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate" - NYer [via GWWC]
full-colour video of London in 1927 - LostAtEMinor
Australia hates thinkers - DailyLife
this is something of a cliche, but from the perspective of the UK it seems quite acccurate
how many Turkish films about Gallipoli will make it to Australia (or the UK)? - Guardian
an interactive tool for building 3D polyhedra - Levskaya [via Baez]
a nice spoof of Dan Brown's style - Telegraph [via Matty]
Mochizuki, the ABC Conjecture and the nature of proof - ProjectWordsworth
100% renewable energy is feasible for Australia - BusinessSpectator
an illustration of the energy density of wet rice agriculture - PopeHat
some fantastic insect photography - AlexWild
the politics of alcohol in Alice Springs - Inside
The Uses and Abuses of the History of Topos Theory - CWRU [PDF]
"Given its falsity to the facts, the history of topos theory as a generalization of set theory survives precisely as common sense."
knitting patterns better done in Excel than R? - SuperMassive
Orr on Nagel: the strength of materialism is apparent from the weakness of its critics - NYROB
a murder mystery in 1960 Japan - Inspector Imanishi Investigates [my review]
justice for the Mau Mau victims of British torture? - Guardian
are zombies inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible? - PhilPapers survey
a cross-cultural perspective on raising children - Guardian
stupidly gendered products (including special cat5e ethernet) - Pinterest [via Su]
lower admin costs do not make a charity better - GivingEvidence [via WhatWeCan]
Dutch-style roundabouts coming to London! - LCC
guns don't kill people, small children kill people - Gawker
a light-hearted gothic mystery - The Pendragon Legend [my review]

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