Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)
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Last update: 26 June 2022 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)
background on the new "moving traffic offences" powers local authorities outside London are getting -
Commons Library
there are too many cars in central Amsterdam -
Oxford BlogYes, I went to Amsterdam and took photos of crossings and counted cars at one of the Grachtengordel junctions!
is kilometre-scale climate modelling possible and how useful would it be? -
Real Climate"The sensitivity variations in the existing CMIP6 ensemble are both broader than the observational constraints and are mostly due to variations in cloud micro-physics which would still need to parameterized in k-scale models."
once people experience car-free cities, they love them -
Wired"No one I spoke to for this piece could name a recent sizable pedestrianization or traffic-reduction scheme that had been reversed once it had been given time to have an effect."
very different futures for otters in Singapore and China -
Mongabay
a look at the 'Dutch-style' roundabout in Cambridge -
PJA
most Australian homes are closer to tents than properly insulated buildings -
Guardian
twenty-four book recommendations from around the world -
Rest of World
"The perception of rhythm in language" -
Cognition [read it carefully!]
forty million people in the US Southwest face life-threatening heat -
Axios
Australia really needs to stop coal mining -
ABC
even normally, Sydney gets nearly 2x as much rain as Oxford -
Guardian
Oxford needs adequate pavements and space for cycling on Hythe Bridge St, so the traffic filter there needs to operate 24/7 and only exempt emergency vehicles -
Oxford Blog
resistance to the Taliban in the Panjshir valley -
India Today
rising temperatures may make Jacobabad (with the population of Oxford) unhabitable -
Guardian
stop using disabled people as an excuse not to remove cars -
Novara Media
the Russians have destroyed Ukraine's National Gene Bank of Plants -
Odessa Journal"more than 160 thousand varieties of plant seeds, and hybrids of agricultural crops worldwide"
the UK currently has a gas glut, high retail prices notwithstanding -
Sky
even Ford has realised that cars rarely make sense in cities! -
Ford
Uyghur incarceration rates are 30x China's average -
ABC"Chinese authorities expanded the definition of extremism to include displays of religion such as growing a long beard or wearing a veil"
what came first, mitochondria or phagocytosis? -
Quanta
the "Fulda Gap Effect" - overestimating Russia's military capabilities -
CEPA
a short video on Dutch Sustainable Safety -
YouTube
Antisocial by Design - making entire cities antisocial to stop occasional antisocial behaviour -
Guardian
does the extended British royal family have a purpose? -
New Yorker
angry drivers run Britain -
Daily Mash"Labour is passionately committed to a cleaner, greener world. It's a controversial view, but we believe children shouldn't get crippling respiratory diseases, unless reducing traffic mildly inconveniences drivers doing their shopping."
Paris is leading the fight against noise pollution -
Bloomberg
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