Monday roundup

I'm so sick of fact-checking this $hit, but someone has to: it's doubly not true that you can't do anything with uranium without first enriching it with centrifuges. You can burn natural (unenriched) uranium; hence the heavy water reactor. Secondly, there are ways to enrich uranium without centrifuges. Okay, just had to get that out. Let's move on.

How Paris and London became walkable, among other things, according to Jonathan Conlin (by way of Jonathan Yardley).

Don't screw your kid for life by eating crap while pregnant.

There are plenty of reasons to eschew seafood but radiation isn't one of them.

Oh, whose side to take on this one? I just don't know. Yeah, PETA's misreading the science but Jezebel is taking PETA too literally.

A kind-of boring survey of American English.

A kind-of boring list of alternative careers for Berlusconi.

This, on the other hand, is a brilliant list of how emotionally strong people think, or rather don't. I'm going to devote a whole different post to a related topic.

But here's some terrible writing (about bras).

This was my reaction to Cyber Monday:

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