February 2018

the Waltham Forest mini-Holland: lessons for Oxford? - OxfordBlog [my rant]

the NHS should be prescribing social connection (as well as cycling) - Monbiot

cycling risks, driver education, women and teenagers - Oxford Blog [my rant]

a brief history of the Oxford English Dictionary - Guardian

a brief backgrounder to 20th century Irish history and the Good Friday Agreement - ProgressivePulse

as with the nuclear industry and Euratom, no one in the aviation industry wants to leave the European Aviation Safety Agency - CAA [PDF]

Iceland may ban infant circumcision - iNews - CNN

the Flying Spaghetti Monster speaks out on human rights - Stirrer

is Townsville Australia's future? - Guardian

France still has 100 square kilometres of "no go" zone from WWI - MessyNessyChic [via @dsquaredigest]

an introduction to the forty-year Dunedin longitudinal study - Endpoints

camels in medieval western Europe - CaitlinGreen

cars are like mice, they are lovely in the right place - RobertWeetman

an analytical look at misogyny - GuernicaMag

Brexit isn't as mad as the Hundred Years War - IrishTimes

five translations of the Mesopotamian epic - Gilgamesh [my review]

a brief history of web browser user-agent strings - WebAIM

a theological-historical detective novel - Son of Man [my review]

"walk south on Cornmarket St towards Queen St" - Google Maps

the UK immigration system is "a grotesque illiberal intrusion into the private life of individuals" - Politics

mass grave of Viking Great Army found in Repton? - CNN

Finland - Guardian

coffee disloyalty cards - OxfordBlog

Pride and Prejudice and P-Zombies - CrookedTimber

on-going ethnic cleansing in Myanmar - Amnesty

the Sydney Opera House car park is architecturally as interesting as the opera house itself - ABC [via @jmfarrow]

what's actually taking up the road space in central London - AsEasyAsRiding

Cape Town (population four million) is going to run out of water in April - NYT

is Cape Coral the world's least environmentally sustainable city? - Politico

visiting Ursula Le Guin a year and a half ago - NYer

"diagonal cumulation" and the problems the UK faces grandfathering current EU trade deals - Sussex

a novel of small town Java - Man Tiger [my review]

having fewer toys leads to more creative play - ScienceDirect [via VisbleChild]

long piece on classicist Mary Beard - Guardian

the UK has low unemployment because it has so many jobs with appalling working conditions - Guardian

whence came the popular culture obsession with good and evil, unknown to earlier myth and folk tale? - Aeon

the difference between being pro-business and pro-wealth - Harrowell

privatising English state schools turns out to be expensive - Guardian

a 1986 story about Erno Rubik - Discover

persecuting the homeless won't make them disappear - Politics

road haulage is another Brexit challenge the UK needs to prepare for but isn't, along with nuclear materials supply and aviation access and safety... - @SamCoatesTimes

cuneiform cookies - AtlasObscura