Selected reading

March 12, 2009 at 10:03 pm | Posted in Misc. | 1 Comment

Yeah, two days in a row. Bad, bad form. Anyway…

• Oxbridge is still doing a poor job at recruiting ethnic minorities.
• John Crace meets the authors who think they’ve discovered the root of every social problem.
• Brad Plumer on the secret lives of beekeepers.
• Brandon Keim insists that whilst Bush’s ban on stem cell funding was wrong, it wasn’t ‘anti-science’.
• Joe Romm explains ‘polar amplification’.
• Matt Springer on the science of Star Trek.
• China Hand has a very thorough, thoughtful post on the situation in Pakistan.
• Did Dick Cheney have a ‘super secret assassination ring?’
• And Judah Grunstein warns against cultural determinism in Afghanistan.

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