Sunday Reading

...The US government starves science. Martin O'Malley, data technocrat. German sociologists boycott academic rankings. "The scene reads a bit differently if the choice was dictated by a CIA propaganda officer."...

Weather

...more personal (by beth at dresshead.com). The weather is so contentless as to evade all significant discourse, but then it’s also so universal as to underpin it. Simultaneously too large...