August 2014
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finished after 101 years: the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources -
BBC -
BritishAcademy [PDF]the British Thermopylae and the case for reintroducing the lynx -
Monbiotsome interesting thoughts on Switzerland -
CThow General Motors supported Hitler while undermining Roosevelt -
GlobalResearchbuilding an open land surface temperature data repository -
RealClimatesome examples of British facadism -
GuardianAustralia follows the UK down the path of stupid elementary school testing -
Conversationthe Australian Tax Office rules that bitcoin is a commodity rather than a currency -
ATO"What would happen if Palestine joined the International Criminal Court?" -
EIlittle is known about some of Germany's richest people -
BBCsome background on what's happening in Ferguson -
Guardianphotographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s -
Guardiansome actual research into BBC bias -
NewStatesman"The BBC tends to reproduce a Conservative, Eurosceptic, pro-business version of the world, not a left-wing, anti-business agenda."
a different perspective on the violence in Ferguson -
Vox [via RB]not the world's most liveable city if you need to go to the toilet -
Crikeymixed-religion marriages are illegal in Israel -
Informedin the US, gun-toting toddlers kill more people than terrorists -
OpposingViews"traditional names which dominated for decades are now relegated to the fringes... There were just 64 Helens born in 2013" -
Guardianthe Japanese city of Yubari accepts old age gracefully -
Guardianthe other James Bond has a line named after him -
StrangeMapsthe history of Microsoft Word autocorrect -
Wired(I still do almost all my writing using the vi editor, without autocorrect or any kind of automatic spell-checking.)
Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe has died -
ABC [via Janine] -
YouTubewhen the police start demanding religious/ethnic identifications... -
GroundViewsAustralian law enforcement wants your metadata -
Guardianreplication is important for social psychology -
Slatewhich early Christian heresy are you? -
UQuizcomparing the charters of Likud and Hamas -
Informedpeople in the UK are dying because welfare cuts leave them with nothing -
Guardianrelying on air power is a military as well as a moral failure -
Haaretz"Absent high-quality intelligence and battle plans, the IDF chose massive fire at populated zones, with major harm to civilians."
new driveways are fine in the UK, bike sheds are not -
Guardiana Health & Safety perspective on cycling -
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