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Tuesday links: Energy, China diplomacy, Syria, Jane Austen and more

Sam Roggeveen
Published 7 May 2013 14:12   0 Comments  
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  • China becoming a player in Israel-Palestine diplomacy?
  • Via Fallows, a scathing take on modern China: 'It's becomes painfully obvious to me how something like the Great Leap Forward could happen in China where millions starved. When a society is built on so many layers of superficiality, bullshit and hypocrisy, and passing off responsibility to others, getting at the truth to solve real problems becomes impossible.'
  • Prices for all major categories of renewable energy continue to fall.
  • US historian and columnist Anne Applebaum is in Sydney, a city apparently witnessing a 'proliferation of Starbucks'.
  • 'Quantitative urbanism', the mathematical study of cities.
  • Empathy: if Syria had bombed an Israeli military base, how would the world have reacted?
  • Jane Austen, game theorist:


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