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Links I found interesting for 19-10-2013
- Charlotte Church's BBC Lecture On Sexism In The Music Industry
Great stuff.
(tags: sexandgenderandsexuality ) - EU aid to Morocco not conditional on human rights
Former EU ambassador to Morocco: "Yes, it is an authoritarian state." (in French)
(tags: eu westernsahara ) - ‘The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien’
According to @JulianGough, includes several sf ( Read more... )
- Charlotte Church's BBC Lecture On Sexism In The Music Industry
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Links I found interesting for 09-10-2013
- Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science?
Presented with identical summaries of the accomplishments of two imaginary applicants, professors at six major research institutions were significantly more willing to offer the man a job. If they did hire the woman, they set her salary, on average, nearly $4,000 lower than the man’s.
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Links I found interesting for 25-07-2013
- Oud-Heverlee natuurwandeling door vier seizoenen
A year in the natural world in our home village; lovely.
(tags: Belgium ) - Twiplomacy
World leaders on Twitter
(tags: politics twitter ) - New EU-Morocco Fisheries Protocol signed today
EU conniving in plunder of natural resources from the occupied Western Sahara (again).
(tags: eu westernsahara ) - Atos ( Read more... )
- Oud-Heverlee natuurwandeling door vier seizoenen
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Links I found interesting for 10-07-2013
- Strife in the Sahara
Excellent video from @washingtonpost.
(tags: westernsahara ) - An Ethical Guide To Consuming Content Created By Awful People Like Orson Scott Card
The Ender's Game debate.
(tags: sf sexandgenderandsexuality )
- Strife in the Sahara
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Links I found interesting for 29-04-2013
- A Cucumber Map of Europe
With a bonus map of oranges.
(tags: languages maps ) - President Obama plays Daniel Day Lewis in White House skit
Quite funny (and short).
(tags: uspolitics funny ) - Stalemate in Western Sahara frustates organizers
Interview with a Saharawi human rights activist.
(tags: westernsahara ) - Museums in Macedonia
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- A Cucumber Map of Europe
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Links I found interesting for 19-04-2013
- 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place
Oh, Vienna!!!
(tags: history ) - 'I'm following all the rules, but they won't pay for me to survive'
More from the UK government's war on the poor.
(tags: ukpolitics ) - France won't block U.S. proposal on Western Sahara
Hooray!
(tags: westernsahara ) - Courageous Senators Stand ( Read more... )
- 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place
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Links I found interesting for 18-04-2013
- 17 London Underground Maps You Never Knew You Needed
Some of these are more helpful, but less entertaining, than others!
(tags: london maps ) - Atos apologises to long-term sick wrongly assessed as fit for work
Rather a non-apology, if you ask me. "If we get something wrong then I'm very happy to say sorry."
(tags: ukpolitics disability ) - UN/Western ( Read more... )
- 17 London Underground Maps You Never Knew You Needed
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Links I found interesting for 17-04-2013
- The Everyday Sexism Project
A year of shouting back.
(tags: sexandgenderandsexuality ) - Influential Reinhart-Rogoff Pro-Austerity Research Riddled With Errors: Study
HuffPo summarises.
(tags: economics ) - Panic in the Kingdom
Morocco objects to human rights monitoring in the Western Sahara.
(tags: westernsahara ) - The Monsters of H.P. Lovecraft's ( Read more... )
- The Everyday Sexism Project
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Links I found interesting for 02-04-2013
- Extended: Free accounts for new members « The LibraryThing Blog
Brilliant news - whether you use GoodReads or not, LT is a great fallback.
(tags: books ) - Savita Halappanavar death report finds foetus, not mother, was main focus
Husband not satisfied.
(tags: savita ) - The European Parliament's move to Dresden
Great piece by Hugo Brady and Jan Techau.
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Links I found interesting for 08-03-2013
- Morocco refuses entry to 4 EU lawmakers on trip to Western Sahara
"It was humiliating. It was absolutely unacceptable. It was a demonstration of totalitarian disregard of decency and democratic standards."
(tags: Westernsahara )
- Morocco refuses entry to 4 EU lawmakers on trip to Western Sahara