Friday, March 08, 2013

Tickled my fancy

Recent links I liked:

Remembering Kenny Ball – on Radio 3

Medical Law  and its relation to the [in]famous Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights

Falling net migration: A trap for future governments? illustrates just one of the perils of trying to control a number which is found by subtracting one very big number from another very big number: today’s immigrant may well be tomorrow’s emigrant.

Letters of Note: The Outsiders How the film came to be made

The science of politics Did western television bring down the Wall?; is there really a natural experiment which answers this question?.

More on Wi fi on the buses

What are we becoming a nation of now? Strangely, America seems never to have become a nation of shopkeepers.

Economics of slavery