February 2016
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training rats to sniff out tuberculosis -
Guardianreformist successes in Iranian elections -
Guardianthe UK government is now spending about £1 per person per year on cycling -
Roadfixing an academic unit? sack 15 academics, create 4 more departments, and appoint 6 new administrators -
CanberraTimesobsession with assessment is bad for teachers and students -
TESmaybe there's hope for the United States: a poll of 18-26 year olds -
Interceptphysicians on air pollution in the UK -
RCPLondonit's costing us 40,000 deaths and £20 billion a year
"an attack on consumerism and waste disguised as a personal-finance advice column" -
NYersome nice animated mathematics videos -
3blue1brown [via Quanta]sea-level change in millennia past and future -
RealClimatedetained for eight hours by UK immigration for wanting to do a PhD -
THEhooked on social media -
NYRBa nice profile of Michael Orthofer and the Complete Review -
NYerpenal transport to Siberia is not what it used to be -
SiberianTimesmore inhumanity from the UK government's migrant-hate -
Guardianwhat we can learn from having reached Peak Paper -
Aeonthe Catholic Church still runs Ireland's primary schools -
Guardianthe US is killing people based on statistical analysis of metadata -
ArsTechnica [via Cosma]"0.008% false positive rate would be remarkably low but corresponds to 15,000 Pakistanis potentially being misclassified as 'terrorists'"
Poland is following Hungary into intolerant authoritarianism -
NYROBAustralia switched to decimal currency fifty years ago -
SMHethnic cleansing in the West Bank -
B'TselemClive James on the BBC's latest War and Peace -
Guardiana long backgrounder on Trident, the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent -
Guardian"Trident may or may not keep us safe. The hope is, and always has been, that it will keep us important."
writing the history of the French Resistance -
NYRBmore irrationality from the UK government: David Cameron blocks compulsory school sex education -
Telegraphnice piece on the gravitational wave discovery -
NYer [via Robbie]the Finkbeiner test for writing about female scientists -
CJR [via Juz]Sydney's divide: "the less poverty you see, the more likely you are to convince yourself it doesn't exist" -
Guardianwalking central Oxford: a pedestrian perspective -
Oxford BlogThai police raid bridge club -
SMH"The gathering violated a 1935 Playing Cards Act that prohibits the possession of more than 120 playing cards at any one time"
there's an abandoned dinosaur in the woods in North Carolina -
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