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November 2015

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Internet advertising is a bubble waiting to burst - IdleWords
why has only one of 9,000 destroyed Gaza houses been rebuilt? - EI
Kurdish Syria: an anarcho-feminist quasi-state? - NYT
the insanity of pushing "rigorous instruction" on ever-younger children - WP
this is one reason the less formal/academic-oriented of our local primary schools actually seems more attractive to me
engineers are more likely to be terrorists (also creationists, climate change deniers) - WP
the cost of Trident is rising by £1 billion a year: £31b and counting - Guardian
has the Australian navy killed a dozen people? - Guardian
a setback for active travel in Basel - BikeBiz
a moving piece about living with a dementia sufferer - Guardian
South Africans can't escape history - Guardian
"In the mid-1990s, the government's curriculum-redesign committees eliminated history as a standalone subject"
Cosma now has a twitter feed - @cshalizi
mapping Africa's ethnic and linguistic diversity - Harvard
killing terrified 13 year old girls is standard practice for Israeli soldiers - Guardian
(just noticed this is old news)
screw the poor some more: cutting working tax credits in the UK, family payments in Australia - Guardian
against shared use walking-cycling routes - AsEasyAsRiding
US states that have surrendered to ISIS - imgur
we're losing our "last resort" antibiotic against Gram negative bacteria - NewScientist [via Jarnot]
sacrificing the lives of old people and children for cheap meat
the shameful betrayal of bishop George Bell - Spectator
Arabic sociolinguistics and the word "Daesh" - FreeWordCentre
Christopher Wren in Oxford: "a bit of a donkey aesthetically" - AlbionBeatnik
the case for teaching children accurate words for genitals - Atlantic
the Syrian Kurds have a quasi-state along the border with Turkey - NYROB
some unpleasant surprises from Greenland glacier ice dynamics - WP
how do I parse HTML using regular expressions? - StackOverflow [via Cosma]
it's not downloadable lectures that have killed student attendance rates - MissUniTwoCents
the ongoing debate over the nature of Greek hoplite warfare and its historical significance - PUP
How We are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to do About It - Poor Numbers [my review]
David Cameron is blindly destroying the UK's libraries, children's centres, and other local services - Guardian
improving palliative care in Mongolia - NPR
I have a new camera: an Olympus E-M5 II - OxfordBlog
the horrors of a 1941 massacre - and persisting Polish anti-semitism - NYROB
exploring the diversity of the British short story - Guardian
"wildly experimental, predominantly extrovert, relished humour in the most surprising places, and not very genteel at all"
the disaster-in-waiting that is Jerusalem - NYROB
meaning and madness in a middle class Madras family - The Illicit Happiness of Other People [my review]
ten curious facts about Samuel Pepys - OUP
The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics - On Stalin's Team [my review]
racial desegregation in an Oldham academy - Guardian [via @amanda_wrigley]
unlocking the history of Indonesia's mass killings in 1965/66 - NYROB
pool fences and bike helmets: the hierarchy of hazard controls - Treadly [via Tampion]
Indonesia's fires are a global disaster - Vox - Guardian
in the UK, cyclists are expected to cycle on 70mph dual carriageways, crossing two-lane entries with no protection - AsEasyAsRiding

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