May 2016

Leave or Remain? a fundamental asymmetry - OxfordBlog [my thoughts]

early bedtimes are better for children - Slate

another round in de Broglie-Bohm versus Copenhagen - Quanta

UK "no religion" jumps from 25% to 48% in three years?! - Guardian

Israel's new defence minister is a thug - Guardian

skeptics should take on the hard targets, not just the easy ones - SciAm

the Second Indochina War is still killing people - NYer

Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad and the Self - Atlantic

Iran's prospects for a nuclear bomb have been curtailed - NYROB

working in Switzerland compared to working in the United States - Vox

Australia is fine with illegal immigrants, it only hates legal asylum seekers - GlobalPost

"women are now pinballing among the worst of all the dating systems that have come before" - NYer

high resolution modelling of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - RealClimate

typography matters - ProPublica [via Matty]

Trident is for Britain what a bazooka is for a tramp - Guardian

New South Wales increasingly seems like a police state - Vice

51 and 57 are the most popular false-primes - IOdical [via @divbyzero]

even if possible, a "Swiss option" for the UK doesn't seem attractive - InFacts

the first intellectual biography of David Hume? - NYROB

Philip Pullman on comics - Guardian [via Anna]

the Nakba is part of Jewish Israeli history too - SMH

more on the insanity of the UK primary school grammar testing - RedOnline

the rich pay less for toilet paper than the poor - Atlantic

how to identify common languages that use Latin alphabets - TheWeek [via @divbyzero]

exploring an online archive of Russian Futurist publications - OpenCulture

the Catholic church will (create a commission to) consider the historical precedents for allowing women to serve as deacons - NCR

Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight - On the Wing [my review]

football hooligans and cyclists - AsEasyAsRiding

when you're a billionaire, "insecurity is fantastic" - Guardian

octopus genomes sound fascinating - Nature

Hamburg got a container port, but is it sustainable? - Guardian

a nice overview of the challenges posed by global warming - Climate Shock [chapter 1 PDF]

a guide to bad data - Quartz [via Cosma]

Erik Olin Wright on capitalism, socialism, a universal basic income and more - Jacobin [via Cosma]

(I really should write that review of _Envisioning Real Utopias_ sometime)

Aristotle, On Trolling - J-APA [via Cosma]

how Jane Jacobs saved New York from Robert Moses - Guardian

car, bus and truck drivers kill a person a week in London - VisonZeroLondon

applying forensic archaeology to the Operation Reinhard death camps - Sapiens

a Korean love story and social critique - Pavane for a Dead Princess [my review]

Lyme disease sounds like one of the nastier common diseases going around - Conversation

teaching consent - @lizandrade