July 2013

Archaeopteryx one among many feathered dinosaurs - NatGeo

Shusaku Endo's novel of faith in 17th century Japan - The Samurai [my review]

Australia interns pregnant women in malaria-ridden concentration camps - Age

web economy bullshit generator - Dack

who will be the bastardest? - FirstDog

shared space intersection regenerates Poynton - YouTube [via CyclOx]

why is Venice such an attractive city? - Oxford Blog

'crack babies' suffer from poverty, not the effects of cocaine - Philly [via Mertz]

India declares dolphins to be "non-human persons" - DW

UK forecasts for plane passenger numbers have been wildly wrong - Monbiot

a brief introduction to the Tale of Genji - AsianStudies [PDF]

so much evolutionary psychology is just ideology - Pharyngula

why philosophers should care about computational complexity - arXiv

nine English cathedrals and two parish churches charge entry fees - ThinkingAnglicans

I am one of the black seeds in the watermelon - ListeningToGolem

Kafka for kids - NYer

formal testing of five-year-olds in the UK?! - Guardian

first impressions of my new bike - Oxford Blog

medieval-to-modern continuities in German anti-semitism - OUP

justice for war crimes in Bangladesh in 1971? - Guardian

ethnic cleansing in Israel - Informed

Moodys on Australian banks and real estate - MB

"it would take a bold economist who has been in a decade-long coma to declare that an Australian housing correction was impossible"

the Cotswolds are a Surabayan band - Ayorek

some amazing external staircases - WorldGeography

Wikipedia has a (spoof) Terminal Event Management Policy - Wikipedia

Chris Mooney on the science of why we don't believe science - Medium

breastfeeding in Mongolia - DrMomma

marshmallow test tests reliability of carers, not child self-control - Rochester [via @MarkLauer]

Aum Shinrikyo as a model for responding to terrorism - L'Hote

the National Childbirth Trust and the class system - Oxford Blog

a Yiddish poet returns to Poland from America - The Glatstein Chronicles [my review]