- Irate emails from Giles Coren to subeditors
- Crookedtimber.org ‘the phrase “maximise profits” can’t be unpacked into a coherent decision rule’
- new yorker article about ancient european cave art
- unanswered questions about the 2001 anthrax scares
- I have solved the making DVDs out of AVIs problem and the solution is called DVD flick
- Optimise your journal article abstract for search engines
- Monbiot: ‘The US does not really have a foreign policy. It has a series of domestic policies which it projects beyond its borders’
- New Yorker: ‘Magic is the dramatization of explanation more than it is the engineering of effects.’
- Burke’s Law of Metadynamics (via interconnected)
- You Tube BBC interview with Philip Pullman about His Dark Materials and storytelling in general
- New Yorker ‘Pirahã undermines Noam Chomsky’s idea of a universal grammar’ (and is a good moral in the deep cultural biases that are worked into most of Western science’s behavioural tests)
- New Yorker: How ‘War and Peace’ works
- The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistence
- Turn on security in Gmail (via Ben Goldacre)
- Philippe Petit (“Man on Wire”) after the famous Twin Towers wirewalk
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