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March 2014

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"A modern web page is a catastrophe" - Usenix [PDF]
another piece on the gendering of pink - Atlantic
"Victorian-era men's clothing was fancy and frilly and elaborate enough to make almost any modern woman look homeless by comparison" (comment)
New Zealand's mandatory bike helmet law estimated to kill 50 people/year - NZMA
also, injuries to cyclists per hour of cycling have increased
how a billion dollars of "degenerate art" ended up in a Munich apartment - VanityFair
Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? [my review]
Singapore is holding a dry water festival - StraitsTimes
a Hollywood film featuring an exposition of the Snake Lemma! - YouTube
Oxford's Mathematical Institute has its lecture notes and problem sets online - OxAcUk
in 1949, more distance in the UK was travelled by bike than by private car - CyclePath
an obituary for Indian writer Khushwant Singh - Guardian
are the Habsburg Empire's borders still visible in Eastern European bureaucracies? - VoxEU [via @phaseit]
Chernobyl radiation still inhibiting microbial decomposition of leaf litter - Smithsonian
reviving an old kind of children's playground - Atlantic
a couple of dozen interesting book reviews (mathematics, children's literature) - Ernest Davis
should Python midnight be false? - LWN
new job title to me: "eukaryotic archaeologist" - Wikipedia
Vietnamese short fiction - Behind the Red Mist [my review]
a Buddhist Economics course - Berkeley [via Pam]
nice picture of the BICEP2 South Pole microwave observatory - NASA [via Phil]
Ethics on Wheels - TransAlt [via AsEasy]
the golden age of the shtetl under Catherine the Great - PUP [PDF]
Seoul is demolishing its expressways: 15 since 2002 - Guardian
chat to your neighbour - BigLunchers
Modern Art Oxford with a toddler - Oxford Blog
how murder machines took over the United States - CollectorsWeekly
eating out in Oxford with a baby - Oxford Mommy
some notes on baby moving equipment - Oxford Blog
oil companies cut back on spending - Resilience
gender differences in children's perception of refusals - FaP
a very short guide to recognising famous painters - MetaPicture
why Morwell is burning - SaturdayPaper
the inventor of "Pakistan" - StrangeMaps
British Veterinary Association calls for all animals to be stunned before slaughter - BVA
The First Millennium Refocused - Before and After Muhammad [my review]
a six-year-old learns commutativity of addition and multiplication - Gowers
why Sweden has so few road deaths - Econ
a new documentary about the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966 - Guardian
the making of Wallace and Gromit - Guardian
Orthodox rabbinical courts try to tighten their grip on Israeli family law - AlJazeera
a letter to Mr Morrison - SpeakUpForThese [via Matty]
a fun course by Mayo and Spanos on error statistical philosophy of science - StatsBlogs
three-toed and tenured! - Cosma
for nonprofessionals, Warren Buffett recommends index funds - Fortune
nice overview: Climate Change: Evidence and Causes - RoyalSociety [PDF]

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