March 2016
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the UK's housing crisis can be fixed by improving tenants' rights -
LongShortadvances in sphere-packing: E₈ and the Leech lattice proven optimal -
Quantanew immigration rules will worsen the UK's teacher shortage -
Guardiancorporate profits in the US are too high: "Why have returns on capital risen almost everywhere?" -
Economistevidence for a Bronze Age battle in northern Europe involving thousands -
ScienceMagtrashing the UK's state school system will enable a few people to make a fast buck -
GuardianMalcolm Turnbull is the prefect who just stands by while the school bullies grind their victim's face into the dirt -
WritingInShadowsthe rise of American authoritarianism -
Voxrunning concentration camps is expensive -
Guardiana backgrounder on why the Institute for Fiscal Studies is so respected -
GuardianRhodes Must Fall and institutional racism in Britain -
Guardianarthropod, tetrapod and cephalapod limb anatomies -
Pharyngulainflicting stupidly rigid testing on children, to browbeat teachers and schools -
RosenIsrael's drift towards fascism -
NYRBselfish people insist on being able to rat-run through London parks -
GuardianTory austerity: taking £30/week from the poorest and most vulnerable -
CanaryKostler's original Darkness at Noon! -
NYRBunderfunded schools cut past tense from language teaching -
OnionHermann Weyl on group theory, architecture, biology, and philosophy -
Symmetry [my review]a revival of the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis? -
RealClimatedon't call children beautiful, cute or gorgeous -
SBSWilliam Thurston on the poverty of mathematical education -
arXivsadly, all still true a quarter of a century on
there's an IUCN newsletter devoted to wild pigs, peccaries and hippos -
Sitesthe United States have been reorganised -
xkcd12yo Palestinian girl imprisoned for 4 months, after being detained and interrogated without family or a lawyer -
B'Tselema half-way decent looking "100 books for children" list -
TES(though the "all children should read" bit is nonsense, as usual)
how Gates and Zuckerberg experiment on schoolchildren -
NYROBhow long and how great was the (Western European) 12th century? -
TORCHthe human face of the Syrian refugee exodus -
Guardianjudge claims three year olds can understand immigration law and represent themselves in court -
WPa great rant about website obesity -
IdleWords"pages on text-based websites should not exceed in size the major works of Russian literature"
out-of-school programs teach students real mathematics -
Atlantic"to think about math conceptually and use that as a tool to predict, explore, and explain the world... a dearth of rote learning"
Coventry's twinning with Volgograd, seventy years on -
Guardiana nice profile of mathematician Michael Atiyah -
Quantamass cycling doesn't mean everyone cycles, it means everyone has the option to -
AsEasyAsRidinghow widespread is cheating in professional bridge? -
NYermuseums are closed across northern England, while London gets an outrageously expensive "garden bridge" -
Guardiana fascinating idea, but it also seems more than a little dystopian -
NYer"AltSchool embeds fish-eye lenses in the walls of its classrooms, capturing every word, action, and interaction, for potential analysis."
a novel about a Jewish-Palestinian love affair is banned from Israeli schools -
Guardian"considerations about preserving the identity of the nation and the significance of assimilation"
the politics of language diversity in Bangladesh -
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