Social archive

Book Review: Red plenty: lessons from the Soviet dream – http://bit.ly/bWqITR

What does procrastination tell us about ourselves? http://nyr.kr/aGvO7A

The Needham Question – http://bit.ly/dDq16t

The True Size of Africa. http://bit.ly/ddzMpV

Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup – the creator of C++ http://bit.ly/cLAjYA

Why Are the Effects of Marijuana So Unpredictable? http://bit.ly/bqI8g3

Andre Geim: in praise of graphene http://bit.ly/cz71Io

Paul Krugman: The Theory of Interstellar Trade – http://bit.ly/93zXL8

Royal Statistical Society warns on UK Treasury plan to switch inflation measure – http://bit.ly/aNpara

Uninformed twaddle and generalisations about Science Bloggers. http://bit.ly/dcTBBa

Benoît Mandelbrot Dies at 85 – http://nyti.ms/cBUy1r

How Stieg Larsson trained Marxist guerrillas in Eritrea – http://bit.ly/crfiOX

Crikey. Stuxnet Questions and Answers. http://bit.ly/aLNbbJ

For lack of a nail… Benoit Mandelbrot on the article that made a difference – http://bit.ly/amqYFi

Benoit Mandelbrot on Video – A Selection – http://bit.ly/aDQWuG

Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal – http://bit.ly/cDQqfb

How (not) to communicate new scientific information: a memoir of the famous brindley lecture http://bit.ly/dcZd2r

Interesting article in the NYT – Morals Without God? http://nyti.ms/dmauI1

Is the UK spending review being used to reshape the economy in the interests of business? http://bit.ly/aB5RZQ

UK Spending Review live on BBC Radio 4 – http://bbc.in/aaTD46

RT @alea_ The Ig-Nobel Prize for Economics: Should companies promote people at random? http://bit.ly/bN4oHR

Dilbert: I'm updating my friend resource matrix and I have a few gaps… http://bit.ly/cP0YjQ

What Kind of Geek Are You? http://on.mash.to/aIvOm6

Newspapers and Twitter Policy – http://on.mash.to/9T2ePv

The economic benefits of preserving the natural world – http://bbc.in/9VolNC

Pretty cool. Sub-threshold electronics. http://bbc.in/d3AWVz

Brilliant SF books that got away http://bit.ly/dmRJpo

Video – Joseph Nye on global power shifts – http://bit.ly/blXkBS

Twitter tool roots out disguised mass postings and astroturfing – http://bit.ly/cZ1mka

London Futures Exhibition. Inspired by Climate Change. http://bit.ly/94Kii4

Asok Exists! http://bit.ly/9bBude

Gold in the gray zone between legal and illegal drugs. – http://bit.ly/bc0hFa

Not a Lost Generation, but a 'Disappointed' One: The Job Market's and Generation Y. http://bit.ly/9gMDaP

A quiet week on updates from MoneyScience due to an office move here: http://bit.ly/9DnGbT – Rather Cool.

I used to work on New Journal of Physics: Invisibility cloak closer with flexible 'metamaterial' http://bbc.in/coXDZf

Crikey. Impact: Earth! http://bit.ly/bFP70s

What can you do with a degree in philosophy? http://bit.ly/ceyKU3 – Publishing, if you're me.

In the land of cubicles, the man with 2 monitors is King. http://bit.ly/bk0yzV

A rant about Forced ARTificial Scarcity or "The Future will be ruled by FARTS" http://bit.ly/9eyEgH

A New Take on Political Ideology – http://bit.ly/ar5Y7o

Chatbot auto-tweets replies to climate change arguments – http://bit.ly/9Yx7au

Irish government's offer of chunks from EU cheese mountain prompts outrage from opposition politicians and public http://bit.ly/aUfxzN

According to this article: Killing each Taliban soldier costs $50 Mil; Killing each NATO soldier costs $50k http://bit.ly/c8cfSk

Urk. The market for Infant Foreskins. http://bit.ly/adWKcA

Great Stuff. Geological time spiral – http://bit.ly/dfvYx8

1,800-Year-Old Roman Multitool – http://bit.ly/aBuEYY

RT @NewHumanist: Largest ever atheist ad campaign launched in America. http://bit.ly/bgYQiC

Bible proves there's no need to worry about climate change, says US congressman running for key energy chair – http://bit.ly/bbG9LD

"…the most insidious and subtle exercise in corporate propaganda I have yet encountered…" – Monbiot – http://bit.ly/be51u5

What is the Overton window? http://bit.ly/bRIUjH

Not new, but still quite interesting. The 10 weirdest physics facts, from relativity to quantum physics. http://bit.ly/aoWifT

RT @JimMahar – Conspicuous Consumption as Mating Display – http://bit.ly/9nGzpA

The oldest object yet observed – http://bit.ly/aDAyrA

If only. Ender's Game Fan Trailer. http://bit.ly/bjCjJq

The 50 Best Inventions of 2010 – http://bit.ly/cp5x5j I Like the 3d bioprinter: http://bit.ly/dbmMi3

Dilbert and the man who could not summarise. http://bit.ly/cMZTVN

Psychopaths in the Board Room. http://econ.st/aS0Aqz

Kickstarter is an online threshold pledge system for funding creative projects. – http://bit.ly/caJCDL

Problem-solving bacteria crack sudoku – http://bit.ly/cGNqjI

This Is Your Brain on Metaphors – http://nyti.ms/9xtsvp

Why are new teachers leaving in droves? http://bit.ly/cv9npz

The Neutral Model of Inquiry (or, What Is the Scientific Literature, Chopped Liver?) http://bit.ly/9OecBV

Selection Models and the File Drawer Problem – http://bit.ly/98LHj4

An extragalactic planet "within our reach." http://bbc.in/9wwt2F

#Twitter signs a deal whereby you can get a randomly-selected 50% of all tweets for $360,000 a year – http://reut.rs/aIBSOZ

RT @NewHumanist: Proof at last – Heaven is real! http://bit.ly/9hGxTV (For our part, we never really doubted it)

RT @SimoleonSense @SSRN – Scholarly Research and What We Don't Know We Don't Know http://bit.ly/cWcjmA

Maxwell's demon: Applied demonology – http://econ.st/9uEim0

Stuxnet worm 'targeted high-value Iranian assets' – http://bbc.in/aPOAzl

Climate-Change Strategy: Be Afraid – but Only a Little: http://bit.ly/aoDV0j

What makes people click with each other? http://bit.ly/ekyiqN

Global warming: America can't handle the truth anymore – http://econ.st/fyTegH

Pretty Hate Machine – Remastered. http://bit.ly/i0DQIy

Incredible Pics from ISS by NASA astronaut Wheelock – http://bit.ly/dY65ic

RT @timmarsh: http://twitpic.com/39qqll heavy police presence up park street in Bristol.

Masochists add Jimbo Wales to every webpage – http://bit.ly/gh6Ukn

Global Warming Skeptics Ascend in Congress – http://bit.ly/eKoovc

Is this the most realistic CGI you've ever seen? http://bit.ly/emKcsA

How should governments evaluate climate change impacts on foreigners? http://bit.ly/hNtU9v

Four degrees and beyond: the potential for a global temperature increase of four degrees and its implications http://bit.ly/dTNSKq