Danny Yee

Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)

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Last update: 16 October 2018 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)

cargobikes rather than drones are the future of last-mile logistics - Forbes
Dunkirk is the largest European city to offer free public transport - Guardian
the early anthropogenic CO2 hypothesis reconsidered - RealClimate
the political future of the Church of England - Guardian
a short guide to computational complexity classes - Quanta
the UK has already lost around 2% of GDP due to Brexit - Bloomberg
Scottish doctors can now prescribe birdwatching! - Guardian
UK government touts spending figures including private school fees! - Guardian
"The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that funding per pupil in England fell by 8% between 2010 and 2018, with 66,000 more children in state schools this year than the year before but with 5,000 fewer teachers"
the debate on the revocability of an Article 50 notification - EUlawanalysis [via @StevePeers]
a Nigerian family vignette: grandfather was a slave-trader - NYer [via Cosma]
background on Nissan's presence in Sunderland - Guardian
Occitan still lives - BBC
does academic instruction harm young children? - PsychologyToday [via VisibleChild]
Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era - The Populist Temptation [my review]
death and the passing on of traditional culture - Tari: The Little Balinese Dancer [my review]
homework is useful in secondary school, but not much in primary school - TeacherHead
some radical ideas for reworking UK higher education - Independent
a case about the revocability of an Article 50 notification has been referred to the ECJ - Guardian
little evidence for power laws in real-world networks - Quanta
seven world cities take small steps to improve walkability - Guardian
the Spanish city Pontevedra has banned cars from its centre - Guardian
Irish folklore from the 1930s - IrishTimes
"100,000 children were sent to seek out the oldest person in their community to root out the darkest, oddest and weirdest traditional beliefs, secrets and customs"
an ocean-centred world map projection - LeCartographe
pre-teen children lack the perception and motor skills to safely cross busy roads - SciDaily
a brief intro to how difficult the Navier-Stokes fluid flow equations are - Quanta
Jeff Bezos could start by paying his workers properly - Guardian
mathematics is for everyone! - Quanta
Brexit has been reduced to a legal process because of the policy vacuum - JoK
dying patients want to get back to nature - NYT
how Copenhagen's cycling infrastructure emancipates women - BanPrivateCarsInLondon
"induced demand" explained: roads create traffic - CityLab
an update on the Crossrail delay and its financial implications for TfL - LondonReconnections
amimated construction of a regular heptadecagon using straightedge and compass - @pickover
Buddhism and mindful parenting - VisibleChild
two Canadians learn about Dutch cycling - Vox
the UK should stop subsidising the pension savings of the rich - Guardian
Langlands wins the Abel Prize - Quanta
half the Dominican government's revenue comes from selling passports - Economist
there are downsides to English "swallowing the globe" - Guardian
no deal plans show how Brexit "results in us losing all control and will drown businesses in red tape" - Politics

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Danny Yee