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Last update: 13 October 2011 (RSS, twitter)

how marriage and relationships are changing - Atlantic

the logical consequences of giving embryos full human status - AJBioethics [PDF]

Unix and C are still going strong, but RIP Dennis Ritchie - Wiki

Google is good, but it doesn't get platforms - Plus

my Kindle crashed when I tried to open a PDF of Kallenberg's Foundations of Modern Probability...

an interview with Terry Pratchett - BB

no water supply without a driver's licence?! - IBT

Michael Lewis on state and local government debt in California - VF

Margate sounds like a grim town - Independent

Manchu is dying - Economist

I'm having trauma upgrading my netbook - Plus

what does Greece need 400 M1A1 Abrams tanks for? - DefenceGreece [via Magpie]

no use defending Chios from the Turks, and overkill for cowing Albania or the country which must not be named... invading Bulgaria?

got a Kindle, now downloading much of ebooks@Adelaide - Adelaide

I bought six print books today too!

defend marriage from sharks! - Onion

my review of Coherent Stress Testing appeared in Danube Law and Economics Review, Issue 3(2011) - Danube

even the IMF thinks inequality is bad for growth - WP

etymology of "that barbarous relic" - BarryPopik [via Marginal]

how Niels Bohr got rid of three Nobel Prize medals - NPR [via EdGerstner]

an issue on Iceland - WordsWithoutBorders

Jan Morris' potpourri - Oxford [my review]

how to help statistically illiterate judges and juries? - Guardian

"in case of fire, exit building before tweeting about it"

only in ten US states are home loans non-recourse - WSJ

Bayesian inference need not be subjective or inductive - Gelman

promotional video for Dutch cycling - Vimeo [via CyclOx]

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]

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