Danny Yee

Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)

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Last update: 14 May 2021 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)

modelling the West Antarctic Ice Sheet contribution to sea level rise - RealClimate
plans to turn central Paris into a low traffic neighbourhood - Bloomberg
modern religious zeal and the Temple Mount - Guardian
as sea levels rise, Jakarta is sinking - NASA
Hackney's oldest low traffic neighbourhood dates to 1974; Roman Pompeii had traffic restrictions - Forbes
Spain makes 30km/hr the speed limit on most roads - El Pais
evaluation of low traffic neighbourhoods - Oxford Blog guest post
a nice introduction to induced demand: more roads, more trafic - Wired [vis @psimonk]
a surreal, Escher-like bookshop in Chengdu - Architectural Digest
rain playgrounds, and selling damp cities as tourist destinations - Guardian
Oxfam's shop on Broad St was its first charity shop and goes back to 1948 - OxfordHistory
a real climate policy or just greenwashing? - Guardian
will a focus on equal rights rather than states work better in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking? - 972mag
massive US study of school Covid risks and mitigations - Science
the role of active travel in reducing health inequalities - Health Foundation
a Belgian farmer accidentally moves the border with France - BBC
(201 years after the Treaty of Kortrijk)
Modi and the BJP fail to take West Bengal - Guardian
"Who among us can be totally sure they have not had sex with an octopus?" - n+1
Charles St and Divinity Rd: two East Oxford streets compared - Oxford Blog
trying to disentangle environmental and genetic effects in genome-wide association studies - elife
first-cousin marriages have been illegal in China since 1980; the taboo on marriage between the children of brothers is older - LOC
this is horrible: an Israeli crush disaster reminiscent of Hillsborough - Guardian
two exceptional medieval manuscripts were found by chance in 1934 - Medieval Manuscripts
two books on viruses and viral diseases - Viruses, Plagues and History + A Very Short Introduction [my review]
property taxes, dissenting opinions and the German Constitutional Court - Verfassungsblog
"Man's Greatest Enemy is the Motor Car" - a sadly prescient voice from 60 years ago - @rudo_botha
UK to EU investment up 17%, EU to UK investment down 9% - European Economic Review
"eing a smaller economy than the EU leaves the UK more exposed to the costs of economic disintegration"
possible an even more important vaccine: a malaria vaccine trial shows 77% efficacy! - Guardian
malaria parasites once photosynthesised - Aust Acad Science
the bizarre genome of Rafflesiaceae "corpse flowers" - Quanta
Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates - Across the Bridge [my review]
a Covid catastrophe in India - Guardian
typical UK: if we don't test for fecal bacteria in rivers, we won't need to regulate sewage dumps - Guardian
public spaces of Barcelona: a photo tour - Pedestrian Space
ongoing shrinking of British children's freedom to play - Guardian
Inga Moore talks about illustrating The Wind in the Willows - Guardian
why cycling is important for infants, toddlers and caregivers - BYCS
classic Boeing paper on the pitfalls of outsourcing - Boeing
why are the RSPB, the Woodland Trust, and BBOWT now backing an Oxford-Cambridge expressway? (rebranded as "Nature's Arc") - Guardian
France to allow old cars to be traded in for e-bikes - Reuters

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Danny Yee