Danny Yee

Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)

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Last update: 20 April 2019 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)

Extinction Rebellion and the battle of Waterloo Bridge - Guardian
192 million voters, 80% turnout, only minor glitches and negligible fraud - Jakarta Post
Italy's twenty year economic decline - InetEconomics
the world is not meritocratic "and believing in it encourages selfishness, discrimination and indifference to the plight of the unfortunate" - Aeon
why is post-1947 British town planning so bad? - Guardian
behaviour management strategies - for teachers or parents - TeacherHead
science, engineering, history and politics - The Future of Fusion Energy [my review]
getting a Year 1 class to find the second perfect number - QED
could Barcelona be the first major city to go "post-car"? - Vox
another high profile Brexit advocate admits it's not going to work - OpenDemocracy
Highways England spent £300 million on "congestion reduction" which made congestion worse - BBC
the story of Oxford's Headington Shark - Guardian
an intermediate complexity Earth system model has reproduced the climate variability of the entire Quaternary - RealClimate
our favourite picturebooks - OxfordBlog
1500 spaces a year: Amsterdam is going to systematically remove parking from its centre - CityLab
Japan has a new era name: "Reiwa" - Guardian
the cost of Brexit: -2.5% to GDP and -£19 billion/year to public finances - CER
rethinking homework - Atlantic
Australia's oversize influence on 20th Century philosophy - Aeon
expensive consultants tell schools to save money by cutting lunch portions and taking money from charities - SchoolsWeek
an update on tax havens - Bruegel
12 months in Gaza: nearly 200 killed and 30,000 injured - Guardian
a short video on Waltham Forest's interventions to enable walking and cycling - YouTube
discussion of racism is dominated by white people - Guardian
33 as the sum of three cubes - Quanta
climate-change and overgrazing impact the Mongolian steppe - GlacierHub
one of the MPs who have to save the country: "I don’t even feel like a tiny cog in this machine" - Times
Stockholm's congestion charging was popular once implemented - NYC StreetsBlog
Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1850 - The Enlightened Economy [my review]
read to your children, even if you're in prison - BBC
borrow sugar from your neighbour - YesMagazine
forty years of studying life in ocean floor hot springs - Nature
pro-Bexit protest "swelled from a crowd of eight to a throng of around a dozen" - PlymouthLive
China is running an immense incarceration system for Uyghurs, with international silence - NewStatesman
it's now official: Brexit is delayed till at least April 12 - Europa
Danish billionaires start rewilding the Scottish Highlands - Guardian
Dutch 10-14yos cycling appear to have high injury rates, but for the distance cycled they are actually much safer than UK children - ResearchGate
"I want my street to be like this": contrasting Dutch and UK residential street design - Robert Weetman
Article 50 Extension Day, 2051 - Armchair Ideology
lessons from the Arizona self-driving car killing - TheDrive [via @Urban_Turbo]

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Notes

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Danny Yee