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Last update: 22 September 2011 (RSS, twitter)

How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today - The Making of the British Landscape [my review]

last night I saw two one-man Dickens plays, acted by Simon Callow - Guardian

Last Rites: The End of the Church of England [my review]

GH Hardy on finding versus proving in mathematics - UniverseDiscourse

for a democratic allocation of public space - GlobalUrbanist [via CycleLondon]

bird flu: beware the Trojan Duck - Guardian

Hans Rosling on "Epidemiology for the Bottom Billion" - JSS [video]

an excellent lecture, spanning epidemiology, demographics + public health

going around the Netherlands on a bike sounds like it'd be good fun - Hembrow

the cycling infrastructure looks really nice

"the usual philosophical story of Bayes as inductive inference is faulty" - Arxiv

psychology helped find HMAS Sydney - ResearchDigest [via PeterMartin]

an article on Blue Mountains canyoning - NationalGeographic

an "it's complicated" option for gender on Australian passports - BBC [via Mertz]

time to move to Diaspora? - FreeSoftwareMag

bicycle helments and thalidomide - WarOnTheMotorist

"The Evolution of Complexity in General Circulation Models" - Colostate [PDF]

how Google Translate works - Independent

New York plans 10,000 bicycle sharing scheme - Observer [via @Grist]

on how to learn about science - Deltoid

Deborah Mayo has a blog! - ErrorStatistics [via Gelman]

how carrots became orange - CarrotMuseum [via RabettRun]

A Brief History of the Normans [my review]

accupuncture is not safe - SBM

did lack of copyright law assist Germany's C19 industrialisation? - Spiegel [via OSWALD]

the euro crisis explained using lego - Reuters [via DangerMouse]

Oxford Skeptics in the Pub: Dogs are not Wolves - OxBlog

John Le Carre on his time in intelligence - NYer [via RW]

a long weekend car touring Wales - Oxford Blog

do the Amish use computers? - AmishAmerica - KK [via MikeGifford]

I spent Saturday showing Mike Gifford and his partner around Oxford - Flickr

the India-Pakistan border from space - WSJ [vis RW]

we just got a Sony Bravia TV - AmazonUK

nice features, but a terrible user interface - no wonder Apple is beating Sony up

the Coalition wants to gut the UK's planning laws - Monbiot

reflections of a Republican insider - TruthOut [via Heidi]

"The Pirate Party was right on every detail" - the US has been dictating Swedish info-policy - FalkVinge

gender differences in spatial reasoning appear to be cultural - Wired

geoengineering follies - Monbiot

it's as if half the Australian media were run by flat-earthers - Conversation

the new anti-porn movement - Meanjin [via Hornblower]

the reinsurance industry - BusinessWeek

Australian High Court stops refugees being sent to Malaysia - Guardian

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