Links tagged with “europe”
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Wilder Mann | Charles Fréger
Photos of people across Europe as “the savage as it survives in local popular traditions”. Fascinating, and also I might have nightmares tonight.
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A-Z Index of Euromyths 1992 to 2016 (European Commission in the UK)
Hundreds of myths about EU rules. (via @dracos)
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Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit - Political Economy Research Centre
Another good read on understandable reasons why people have voted for Out. (via @tomskitomski)
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‘If you’ve got money, you vote in … if you haven’t got money, you vote out’ | Politics | The Guardian
A good read for getting beyond “Out voters are all racists!” (via @tomskitomski)
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Nigel’s Against the World (London Review of Books)
I’ve mostly been ignoring EU referendum stuff but this is quite good on the things we don’t really know about what happens if we leave.
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Mythbusters - Richard Corbett
“Facts and fiction about Britain in Europe”
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Francis FitzGibbon · Short Cuts · LRB 23 October 2014
Interesting about exactly how much or little the Human Rights Act, which the Tories want to repeal, constrains the British government.
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Europe by train made easy | Loco2
For future reference. (via @benhammersley)
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Perry Anderson · The Italian Disaster · LRB 22 May 2014
Not for most of the article, but for the first 7+ paragraphs outlining the, er, legal difficulties, of those in political power across Europe. We are terrible.
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Sea Level Rise Maps | Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
Worst case for 2100 is estimated to be up to 1 metre of sea level rise. Which puts several nice bits of the UK coast (never mind Netherlands and Belgium) permanently under water. (via Paul Mison)
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Europe etymology maps 1
Maps showing which European countries use different common-ish words for something, and where those terms originated. (via @tomcoates)
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Chipotle to Open London Restaurant Late in 2009, Names Co-CEO
Mexican food watch: Chipotle coming to Europe.
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Gene Expression: Atheists for a Christian Europe?
Has percentages for “no religion” census choices in various countries. (via Oblomovka)
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World Geography Quizzes - Hundreds of Map Games
Loads of very good educational map games for dumbos like me. (via Haddock)
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Caledonian Global Challenge - Caledonian Business School
Europe-based map game. I’m embarrassingly poor at even this. (via Haddock)
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LRB | Tom Shippey : The Most Learned Man in Europe
Interesting summary of the history of libraries in Western Europe. (Subscribers only.)