February 2015

Australia has given up freedoms (and a lot of money) for nothing - Guardian

Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 - The Formation of Islam [my review]

blind/non-blind comparison shows gender bias in school marking - NBER

"over-assessment of boys has a positive and significant effect on future achievements and a significant negative effect on girls"

nice overview of linguistic and archaeological evidence for the Indo-European homeland - AnnRevLing

a study of Jewish humour, now in paperback - PUP - Introduction [PDF]

Oxford cyclists, imagined, actual and potential - Oxford Blog

50 shades of socialist feminism - Laurie-Penny [via Mertz]

drop high quality graduates straight into teaching in poor schools? - Economist

I really should read Magda Szabo's The Door - NYT

"banking has its uses as well as its abuses" - Monbiot

adding hydrofracturing + cliff failure improves ice-sheet models - ScienceDirect

Erich Kästner's classic children's novel - Emil and the Detectives [my review]

don't tell children they are clever - KQED