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"mastery" in mathematics teaching remains an ambiguous buzzword - Cambridge Maths
the future of transportation: buses, bicycles and elevators - Slate
"hers", and how bias gets into AI systems - Medium
don't make your child multiply - Oxford Blog
even low concentrations of particulate emissions increase mortality (kill people) - Epidemiology
how Stockholm brought in congestion charging - Fast Company
"In the UK, e-bikes will enable people to not cycle 4 miles instead of not cycling 3 miles, and 70yos to not cycle at the same rates 40yos don't cycle" - Oxford Blog
it's not just the Russians and the Christian fundamentalists: the Indian ruling party and Hindu extremists are also backing UK Conservatives - OpenDemocracy
a backgrounder on digital Estonia - Managers [via @phaseit]
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission only maintains the graves of white soldiers - Guardian
Helen's school has acquired a "house" system - Oxford Blog
the UK government spent £800 million on a failed technical college programme - BylineTimes
British children's books: food banks are now a part of everyday life - Guardian
what's wrong with electric cars: are they a red herring? - RDRF
sum-of-three-cubes solutions now known (where they exist) for all numbers below 114 - Quanta
an interview with the Irish Border - Irish Times
ten cities and five millennia - Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City [my review]
the horrors of cycling in central Oxford - Oxford Blog
the Times and the BBC are now part of the government's fake news machine - OpenDemocracy
nearly half of Iceland's immigrants are Polish - Iceland Review
Bach the rebel: subversive before he was canonical - Lapham's Quarterly [via @phaseit]
baby bottles from Bronze Age Europe? - Conversation
'the West' and its walls - Strange Maps
Extinction Rebellion and the police - Medium
a progressive response to the ascendancy of Govian traditionalism in UK education - (il)logical teacher
Early Years teaching: a review of the evidence - Early Education [PDF]
it's the tail risks from climate change we should be worrying about - Tim Harford
infinity categories and Higher Topos Theory - Quanta
the mountain-climbing metaphor for mathematical research - Quanta
a good takedown of Plomin's genetic determinism nonsense - Mad in America [via @jayjoseph22]
small island myths of empire and trade - NewStatesman
unprepared for the next pandemic - Vox
the United States has a history of anti-car protests too - CityLab
ban SUVs from urban areas - Guardian
first thoughts on an Oxford controlled parking zone - Oxford Blog
a pedagogical history of compactness (in mathematics) - arXiv [via @phaseit]
Australia is not prepared for future bushfires: "the Federal Government is missing in action" - ABC
three of the reasons school assessment doesn't really work - Rebecca Allen
teaching to the test, cheating by teachers, and pupil exclusions
Early Indo-European Online: language lessons from Lithuanian to Tocharian - TexasAustin
why cars are killing more pedestrians, and what to do about it - Guardian

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Danny Yee