January 2015

"English is not the worst imaginable choice as a medium of international communication" - LL

a few hundred extremely rich people now decide US presidential elections - NYROB

Oxford planning and growth compared to Cambridge - Economist [via RichardMann]

a tragicomic indictment of bourgeois morality in post-WWI Hungary - Anna Edes [my review]

house prices in Oxford are now as insane as in Vancouver or Sydney - OCC [PDF]

a historiographical introduction to the early north Italian communes - PrincetonUniPress [PDF]

how the FBI creates "terrorists" by entrapment - FirstLook

Hermione Granger and the Damned Patriarchy - BuzzFeed

round-the-world cyclist reckons Sydney drivers are the most hostile - Guardian

the Dutch can build sub-standard cycling infrastructure too - ViewFromCyclepath [via @DavidHembrow]

untestable cosmology is mathematics, not physics - Nature [via Mick]

triangulation conjecture disproved! - Quanta

A Hands-On Introduction to Ancient Mathematics - Count Like An Egyptian [my review]

even 6mph streets are crap for cycling if they carry too much traffic - Twitter

the creativity myth - Medium

how unstable is Saudi Arabia? - Nation

five years in prison for "promoting terrorism" on Facebook - Intercept

learning curves for different programming languages - Dobiasd

the UK benefits from freedom of movement within the EU - Sturdy

glutinous rice mochi are not always harmless - Guardian

possible outcomes if Syriza wins power in Greece - PaulMason

Sarah&Duck is my favourite of the tv shows Helen watches - AwesomeDepartment

against long division - matheminutes