Danny Yee

Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)

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some radical ideas for reworking UK higher education - Independent
a case about the revocability of an Article 50 notification has been referred to the ECJ - Guardian
little evidence for power laws in real-world networks - Quanta
seven world cities take small steps to improve walkability - Guardian
the Spanish city Pontevedra has banned cars from its centre - Guardian
Irish folklore from the 1930s - IrishTimes
"100,000 children were sent to seek out the oldest person in their community to root out the darkest, oddest and weirdest traditional beliefs, secrets and customs"
an ocean-centred world map projection - LeCartographe
pre-teen children lack the perception and motor skills to safely cross busy roads - SciDaily
a brief intro to how difficult the Navier-Stokes fluid flow equations are - Quanta
Jeff Bezos could start by paying his workers properly - Guardian
mathematics is for everyone! - Quanta
Brexit has been reduced to a legal process because of the policy vacuum - JoK
dying patients want to get back to nature - NYT
how Copenhagen's cycling infrastructure emancipates women - BanPrivateCarsInLondon
"induced demand" explained: roads create traffic - CityLab
an update on the Crossrail delay and its financial implications for TfL - LondonReconnections
amimated construction of a regular heptadecagon using straightedge and compass - @pickover
Buddhism and mindful parenting - VisibleChild
two Canadians learn about Dutch cycling - Vox
the UK should stop subsidising the pension savings of the rich - Guardian
Langlands wins the Abel Prize - Quanta
half the Dominican government's revenue comes from selling passports - Economist
there are downsides to English "swallowing the globe" - Guardian
no deal plans show how Brexit "results in us losing all control and will drown businesses in red tape" - Politics
the evolution of bat echolocation - KoryosWrites
how schools abuse progress metrics: P8 and the European Computer Driving Licence - Medium
a personal view of school segregation in New York - NYT
the only way driverless cars will work is if we ban walking and cycling - Bloomberg
Ada Lovelace was a real programmer - there were bugs in her code - TwoBitHistory
Sydney is facing steadily increasing bushfire risk - Guardian
cars on the decline in Manchester property development - BisNow
a music-first primary school - Guardian
Australia tries to legislate around encryption - MarkNottingham
writing and literacy in ancient Mesopotamia - Cuneiform [my review]
ocean chemistry in its broadest context - The Oceans: A Deep History [my review]
Barcelona leads the way with municipalist politics - NYer
André Gorz: private cars are like private beaches - UnevenEarth [via @Urban_Turbo]
outsourcing local government: the poor bear the brunt of ideological experiments - Guardian
in praise of a prosaic curriculum - PrimaryTimery [via @MrEFinch]
give your children the gift of boredom - Guardian

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Danny Yee