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Yes-no questions in in Chinese
对 or 不?
(tags: China chinese linguistics )

Hans Rosling: A truth-teller in an age of 'alternative facts'
Great obituary.
(tags: death statistics )

Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump - NYTimes.com
A Republican elector writes.
(tags: uspolitics )

Russia's Top 5 Myths about NATO (PDF)
Just in case you weren't aware.
(tags: Russia nato politics )

Share of households owning at least one cat in the EU in 2014, by country
Romania top, Slovakia bottom.
(tags: cats statistics eu )
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Four Europeans lead in race for UN Secretary-General
The plot thickens.
(tags: un )

I’m With The Banned
Passionate, readable account of @PennyRed at the RNC.
(tags: Uspolitics )

Our nine-point guide to spotting a dodgy statistic
Numbers often lie; or the people using them, anyway.
(tags: mathematics statistics politics )

The Stockholm-Helsinki ( Read more... )

Big Data and the Law
Fascinating.
(tags: crime statistics )

UK physics faces huge uncertainty after EU referendum result
Solving the problem of experts by getting rid of 'em.
(tags: eu science ukpolitics )

The EU will treat Britain like Greece
Only worse. Great article - in @Telegraph!
(tags: eu ukpolitics )

Brussels bickers over Brexit
The ( Read more... )

• Predicting When ‘Game of Thrones’ Author George R. R. Martin Will Come Out With His Next Book
  (tags: sf statistics livejournal )
• Artur Mas: Catalonia’s unlikely revolutionary
  Useful background.
  (tags: catalonia )
• How Sinn Fein “SDLPed” Fianna Fail in 2016
  @jasonomahony consults his crystal ball.
  (tags: ireland politics )