April 2018

CPU energy consumption, numerical errors, and the quadratic formula - JohnCook [via @phaseit]

Jamie Oliver's war on childhood obesity - Guardian

even poor countries can and should provide universal basic health care

the ethnic cleansing of Afrin and the Melian Dialogue - Nation

the challenges facing an EU-ASEAN trade agreement - ECIPE

live MRI of person talking - Reddit

children recover faster from high-intensity exercise than adult endurance athletes - MedicalExpress

Operation Catherine: Churchill's plan to send a battle fleet into the Baltic in 1940 - WebAtomics

can US cities sue big oil over climate change? and the expert evidence - Vox - RealClimate

Saharan and trans-Saharan connections in the Roman era - CaitlinGreen

the other side of Hong Kong: poverty in old age - Guardian

the effects of Brexit on music and the creative industries - HowardGoodall

an interview with children's Greek myths illustrator Carol Hénaff - BarefootBooks

the massive asymmetry in gender norms - CNN

stronger evidence for a weaker Atlantic overturning circulation - RealClimate

handling child meltdowns by "doing nothing" - PinkyMcKay [via VisibleChild]

Tove Jansson and the Moomins - BBC

a history of Sydney trams - ABC

the Wilkinson Axis: skewed university architecture - HoniSoit

how do we value work? minimum wages in context - Guardian

secondhand bookshops I have known - AlbionBeatnik

Australia may benefit from a US-China trade war - Conversation

The Long way Round: when Pan Am was an aviation giant, but the Japanese controlled the Pacific - LapsedHistorian

EvPsych on how "humans evolved in an environment featuring invisible beings with minds and the ability to affect the material world" - Bactra

Brexit: a personal history - @cliodiaspora