Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: September 2016

What Preschoolers Really Need From Grownups - The Importance of Being Little [my review]

a lively and opinionated history - An Introduction to Children's Literature [my review]

time to boycott Coventry University? - Guardian

why historical CO2-temperature correlations don't give the climate sensitivity - RealClimate

the rise of tabletop gaming and Oxford cafe Thirsty Meeples - Guardian

the bizarreness that is English cathedral governance - EcclesiasticalLaw

(and then there's the weirdness that is Christ Church, Oxford: a university college as well as a cathedral chapter)

could the war against rats be over? - Guardian

it's the conservatives in the Labour party who are engaging in Stalinist purging - Guardian

faster sequencing to improve treatment of resistant tuberculosis - NewScientist

rat-running taxis are trying to stop London becoming a liveable city - Cyclable

the last ten years have revealed the central failing of social psychology statistics - Gelman [via @mertz_david]

a field built on "p less than .05 results obtained using abundant researcher degrees of freedom"

recordings of Ayatollah Montazeri opposing mass killings in late 1980s Iran - RadioFreeEurope [via Informed]

"If people on pedal cycles are to be safe, 'share the road' must die." - SingleTrack [via @beztweets]

the political history of pockets - Racked

Jeremy Corbyn would be an unremarkable, mainstream social democrat in Norway - OpenDemocracy

Shimano Nexus 8 hub service? SG-8R31 versus SG-8R36 redline - Oxford Blog

"who could have predicted the combination of gutlessness, vacuity and incompetence [Turnbull] has delivered?" - Guardian

Britain's brutal post-1945 secret wars - Guardian

the richest and loudest (bankers, landowner subsidies) will be protected from the Brexit fallout - InFacts

photos of cycling, worldwide - SteveMCurry

a simple change to Oxbridge admissions could help to broaden school quality - Guardian

lovely story about adults continuing their school game of tag - Guardian

the origins of the expression "welp" - Slate [via Bowern]

the transport geography of early childhood - Oxford Blog

nice cognitive bias "cheet sheet" - BetterHumans [via @dnunan79]

a Zambezi puzzle: do Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia meet in two tripoints or one quadripoint? - FutilityCloset [via @divbyzero]

a popular piece on gut microbiome research - Guardian

toddlers and preschoolers don't live in adult time - VisibleChild