Danny Yee

Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)

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Last update: 26 April 2018 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)

children recover faster from high-intensity exercise than adult endurance athletes - MedicalExpress
Operation Catherine: Churchill's plan to send a battle fleet into the Baltic in 1940 - WebAtomics
can US cities sue big oil over climate change? and the expert evidence - Vox - RealClimate
Saharan and trans-Saharan connections in the Roman era - CaitlinGreen
the other side of Hong Kong: poverty in old age - Guardian
the effects of Brexit on music and the creative industries - HowardGoodall
an interview with children's Greek myths illustrator Carol Hénaff - BarefootBooks
the massive asymmetry in gender norms - CNN
stronger evidence for a weaker Atlantic overturning circulation - RealClimate
handling child meltdowns by "doing nothing" - PinkyMcKay [via VisibleChild]
Tove Jansson and the Moomins - BBC
a history of Sydney trams - ABC
the Wilkinson Axis: skewed university architecture - HoniSoit
how do we value work? minimum wages in context - Guardian
secondhand bookshops I have known - AlbionBeatnik
Australia may benefit from a US-China trade war - Conversation
The Long way Round: when Pan Am was an aviation giant, but the Japanese controlled the Pacific - LapsedHistorian
EvPsych on how "humans evolved in an environment featuring invisible beings with minds and the ability to affect the material world" - Bactra
Brexit: a personal history - @cliodiaspora
tampering with balls is not acceptable, but it's ok for Australian sportsmen to beat up women - MSN
there is no way technology can deliver a frictionless Northern Ireland border - Politics
when media "impartiality" gives ignorance the same space as expertise - NewStatesman
Vienna is getting an IKEA with zero parking spaces - @bruteforceblog
Barcelona creates "superblocks" to get human-friendly streets - Vox
stripping fundamental rights from 4 million people, with a bunch of lies - @mediawhizz
the UK Home Office implementing its "hostile environment" - Guardian
Barcelona has the most densely populated 1km square in Europe - Guardian
"expensive incrementalism" in transport planning: an Oxford example - OxfordBlog
Michelle Bachelet's legacy in Chile - AmericasQuarterly
in the Australian Capital Territory, you can be fined $3000 for cycling without a helmet (which is more than the maximum possible motor vehicle speeding fine) - SHG
"point and call" safety on Japan's railways - AtlasObscura
taking patriarchal culture down bit by bit: the new 'Tomb Raider' movie - Junkee
Langlands wins the Abel Prize - AbelPrize
British children living in Britain are going to lose rights as a result of Brexit (to have non-EU carers live with them) - @mattholehouse
London's Blackfriars Bridge shows bicycles can be 5x more space-efficient than motor traffic - @AsEasyAsRiding
and that's with some buses in the traffic mix!
Brexit and Africa - @IncompetentMay
A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe - Lingo [my review]
Dover isn't going to be ready for even a bit of "friction" in 2.75 years, let alone in 1 - Sky
Hindu fanatics attack a film whose major problems appear to be misogyny and Islamaphobia... - Cherwell
"For two decades, successive British governments put profits over security and underestimated the danger of hosting unscrupulous kleptocrats in their country" - WP

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Danny Yee