December 2017

tilde club: a retro web community - Medium

toasting the ketogenic kool aid - Huffington

how the packaged sandwich took over Britain - Guardian

Gina Miller wants transparency in funds management as well as politics - Bloomberg

iron objects from the Bronze age come from meteorites, not precocious smelting - SciAm

a school lifting up people dumped on by the immigration system - Guardian

the bitcoin bubble and the efficient markets hypothesis - NationalInterest

Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler and the Gruffalo - Guardian

a long thread highlighting Transport for London report - @JamesBlurbs

the state of the ABC conjecture and Mochizuki's claimed proof - GaloisRepresentations

teaching reading: the dumbing down of Australian higher education - Guardian

UK decision-making is broken: the world's most expensive power plant - Guardian

With an Anthology of Tang Poetry - Chinese Poetic Writing [my review]

the Royal Society's 2017 Photography Competition: finalists - RoyalSociety

lack of political will means cycling is going nowhere in London - London [PDF]

"The only thing the [UK] government will find between Norway and Canada is the wreck of the Titanic" - Politics

Australia is pushing outdated transport ideas, without consultation and ignorning advice - Conversation

pentagon tiling proof found - Quanta

is requiring kindergarteners to read such a good idea? - WP

we have reading take-off! - OxfordBlog

even if the UK ever negotiates decent FTAs with BRICs, the US, etc. that will offset a small fraction of the losses from leaving the Single Market - Medium

the UK: grinding people down not just into poverty but into destitution - Guardian

what the big Tesla battery in South Australia actually does - RenewEconomy

the origins of the moon: was Theia the mother of Selene? - Quanta

now the US government bans "evidence-based" in CDC budget documents - WP

proper funding for walking and cycling in Manchester? - Guardian

do the difficulties of human birth come from energetics rather than obstetrics? - Atlantic

the UK government needs to listen to sound advice on trade - CAPX

is higher education actually that useful? - Atlantic

fancy statistics in economics are often pointless, if not obfuscatory - Medium

having books one hasn't read helps remind one of one's ignorance - Inc

boycott any business that offers bitcoin as a payment option - NewDaily

new "curvature blindness" illusion - Discover

Google: the pros and cons of having all code in a single repository - ACM

how the white ibis conquered Sydney - Neighbourhood

the Japanese are starting to renovate instead of knock-down old houses - Guardian

the "minimum viable user" meets the Unix Philosophy - Reddit

why cycling advocates get angry - @AsEasyAsRiding

a week in Brittany + Normandy - Saint Malo + Bayeux

general purpose algorithm teaches itself superhuman chess skills in 24 hours - arXiv - Chess

An Introduction to Language and Linguistics - How Languages Work [my review]

the BBC is ok with shonky "free trade" propaganda, but not analyses of the effects of austerity on mortality - Long+Variable

Sydney tops world's worst cities for cycling - WeLoveCycling

Voyager 1's backup thrusters still work after 37 years idle - Space

the madness of cars outside school gates - Monbiot

"Before I die, I would love to see just one universal logical qubit that can be indefinitely error corrected" - Quanta

the Houses of Parliament are falling down - Guardian

accept myriad non-binary gender options or abolish gender recognition? - CritialLegalThinking