Danny Yee

Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)

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Last update: 6 October 2013 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)

property investment basics - AFR
why does a private company get access to pregnant women in hospital? - Guardian
Lombok volcano responsible for 1257 eruption - BBC
the market for IP addresses - APNIC
an amusing take on hardware design and the limits of Moore's Law - Usenix [PDF]
the history of Australian property prices - MacroBusiness
Alexander McCall Smith on Auden - NewStatesman [ia Rita]
endemic UK prejudice against cyclists - Guardian
should children be made to eat greens? - Guardian
overdamming China - Economist
perfect pitch is not so perfect - BBC
Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live [my review]
Germany is now exporting grandmothers to Poland - Bloomberg
preemptive denial of forthcoming IPCC reports - Guardian - Monbiot
new film of Much Ado About Nothing sounds good - NYROB
background on the Indi election result - TheHoopla
Barry Jones on asylum seekers - Conversation
"The dehumanisation of refugees is our greatest moral stain since the campaigns to hunt down and kill Aborigines."
nothing wrong with two spaces after full stops - HeracliteanRiver
an illustrated history of men being intimate - ArtOfManliness
climate model-observation mismatches - RealClimate
the UK's early childhood education policy ignores the evidence - Guardian
against marriage - OrganizingUpgrade
US media silent about Israel's use of chemical weapons - ClevelandChallenger
a guide to Dutch roundabouts - BicycleDutch
how to spot a communist using literary criticism: 1955 manual - OpenCulture [via Mertz]
"While a preference for long sentences is common to most Communist writing, a distinct vocabulary provides the more easily recognized feature"
things to consider before intervening in Syria - ECFR [via Informed]
a defective manifesto or a defective personality? - SMH
class warfare in Australia - SMH
a history of IRC - haxx
the Bristol bus boycott of 1963 - BBC [via JonE]
a cycle trip to Wheatley Windmill and Bishop Edward King chapel - Oxford Blog
five scientists split a restaurant bill - MathWithBadDrawings
the Episcopal Church's struggles over gay marriage - c-ville [via ThinkingAnglicans]
macho extractionism drives UK fracking support - Guardian
the chilling effects of PRISM - Groklaw
complexity and the limits of mathematics - Meta Maths: the Quest for Omega [my review]
a week on Britain's canal network - NewStatesman
how high a priority should we place on reducing the risk of human extinction? - EffectiveAltruism
UK abusing anti-terrorism powers to intimidate critics - Guardian
software engineers are now essential in research - TimesHigherEd

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Danny Yee