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£100 million a year would ensure every UK primary school has a proper library - BookTrust

cycling injury risk in Britain: a case-crossover study - Accident Analysis & Prevention - Environ. Res. Public Health - Vimeo

France bans domestic flights that are under 2.5 hours by train - Reuters

doesn't cover that many routes (5-10%), but it's a start

cycling infrastructure empowers women - Guardian

"In the Netherlands and Copenhagen, 55% of journeys by bike are made by women"

a proof of the Erdős-Faber-Lovász hypergraph colouring conjecture - Quanta

England infection rate down to 0.2% (March 11-30), but 0.4% in primary-age children... - REACT/Imperial

there are 300 million e-bikes in China - and 50,000 manufacturers - Bloomberg

restraining car dominance is key to sustainable transport post-Covid - LabourList

the biggest threat to the EU is the rule of law crisis in Poland and Hungary - Encompass

"The electoral autocracies that have emerged in Budapest and Warsaw have not only dismantled judicial independence and fundamental rule of law principles at home, they have also taken to brazenly defying EU law and to attacking central pillars of the EU legal order."

death in the time of covid - Guardian

"These days, all they really want is to avoid hospital. They hope to die at home."

Johnson fits into a long history of prime ministers who are lazy charlatans - Unherd

the UK government's "racism report" is historically illiterate - Guardian

independent schools in the US seem even more out of touch with reality than UK ones - Atlantic

veteran Hong Kong activists face jail for 2019 protests - Yahoo

driving around ancient Pompeii - World Archaeology

what are low traffic neighbourhoods for? - Red Pepper

Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity - Turning Points [my review]

for cities to reach net-zero, cycling is 10x more important than electric cars - Conversation

the divide between US and European e-bike (pedelec) speed and power restrictions - Verge

insulting the Polish president? up to three years in prison - Notes from Poland

Josep Pla's stories of the north Catalan coast - Salt Water [my review]

B.1.1.7 does seem to be relatively more infectious among children - medrxiv [via @SarahDRasmussen]

some printed travel guides are surviving the Internet age - Guardian

Papua New Guinea is at risk of a Covid catastrophe - ABC

"Promoting active travel should be a cornerstone of strategies to meet net zero carbon targets, particularly in urban areas" - Transportation Research Part D

an Oxford road-safety film from 1953 - BFI

20min silent black and white film of Oxford (Uni) in 1928 - BFI

why I explained what a Grothendieck prime is to my daughter - Oxford Blog

nine principles for teaching mathematics - Mathigon

how Europe and the United States lost against Covid - NYmag

snowflakes try to cancel examination of Churchill's less pleasant aspects - Guardian

Australia's history of apartheid in Papua New Guinea - PNGblogs

using a laser to generate true random numbers at 250Tb/s - Science [via Schneier]

will the UK temporally disengage from the EU as well? - Wired

Toronto opts for sustainable and affordable over high-tech - Guardian

positive results from a Californian universal basic income trial - Atlantic

Daily Mail owner buys New Scientist - Guardian

they promise editorial independence and no sharing of content...

the strangeness of Italian power plugs and voltages - @tech963

blow up that junction! my history with low traffic neighbourhoods - Oxford Blog

the Uyghur Genocide: China's breaches of the Genocide Convention - Newlines

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