November 2018

preparing to refight the last war: Japan upgrades its aircraft carriers - Guardian

esoteric personal datasets - @stefpos

the e-waste nightmare in the toy box - Mashable

Python's founder works to improve open source diversity - Forbes

Oxford street design failures: Boundary Brook to Howard St - Oxford Blog

trying to work out why and how wombats have cubic poo - PBS

discoveries about Inca knot-writing - NewScientist

Clement Attlee took in a Jewish child refugee in 1939 - Guardian

the fight against malaria is at a standstill - NYT

an introduction to the International Phonetic Alphabet - LanguageBasecamp

Golden Awards, Dojo points, and behaviour colours - Oxford Blog

UK Supreme Court refuses appeal against application - so on 27 November the ECJ will rule on whether an Article 50 notification is unilaterally revocable - SupremeCourt [via @davidallengreen]

mathematics, approaching six - Oxford Blog

how the Democratic Republic of the Congo is stamping out sleeping sickness: a photo-essay - Guardian

plans to pedestrianise central Paris (arr 1-4) - BBC

trying really hard to kill any joy in primary school mathematics - ThirdSpaceLearning

why we need difficult books - Guardian

a large part of England's "National Cycle Network" is impassable or unsafe - Guardian

even Tory loyalists are unhappy about a choice "between vassalage and chaos" - Medium

some interesting teacher tips for reading instruction - ChrisChivers

twelve medieval books - Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts [my review]

a comedy of manners in a French village - The Alphonse Courrier Affair [my review]

"poor-quality medicines can kill you even if you don’t take them" - Mosaic

"the will of the people" is a very un-British idea - Politics

Monbiot goes after one of the UK's sacred cows (or is that a Nubian ibex?) - Guardian

will the Andenpakt "white boys club" come back after Merkel? - AlJazeera

teaching girls to help each other - WP

the kilogram is about to be redefined! - @MaxFagin

"baseline testing" of four year olds will exacerbate social inequality - LeedsTrinity

the UK ploughs ahead with new roads, ignoring looming climate catastrophe - Forbes

classic book covers, animated - Vimeo