Weekly round-up and open thread, 14 October 2013

This image is called Autumn berries. It shows ripe and ripening blackberries against a background of green leaves and was found at Need A Haircut's Flickr photostream. It is used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic license.Here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so, but not had time to post about.

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This week’s closing video is ‘Tisnant an Chatma (The suffering of my sisters)’ by Tamikrest from the album Chatma:

Image attribution and description: The image at the head of this post is called Autumn berries. It shows ripe and ripening blackberries against a background of green leaves and was found at Need A Haircut’s Flickr photostream. It is used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic license.