February 2019
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new cars may be getting speed-limiters and black boxes -
CarltonReidI'm not sure Oxford's current planning for cycling is as good as Delft's forty years ago... -
BicycleDutch [via @BicycleDutch]The Overheated Arc: a critical analysis of the Cambridge-Oxford "growth corridor" -
SmartGrowthUK [PDF]"The proposals for the Arc and Expressway have been developed by a small clique in Whitehall without reference to those most affected. The plans are vague, unsustainable, uncosted and hugely damaging to the environment."
economic inequality induces high-intensity parenting -
WPhow a mathematics paper was published with first author "Anonymous 4chan Poster" -
Quantathe secret history of women in coding -
NYTin the 1950s and 1960s, "employers simply looked for candidates who were logical, good at math and meticulous"
Betty Ballantine helped make science fiction and fantasy mainstream -
Smithsonianin five years, the UK automotive industry will be where Australia's was a year ago -
NewsDonald Appleyard's insight: cars kill relationships and communities (as well as killing people) -
Vimeosome background on tailings dam failures -
Reutersa global history perspective on "Western Art Music" -
MusicologyRussian social media warfare tries to undermine vaccination: is the entire Enlightenment a target? -
BBCwhy does it fall to a backbencher to point out the obvious on Brexit? -
Twitter"the behaviour of a 3 year old threatening to hold their breath if they don't get the toy they want"
a cheery Valentine's day tweet from the Department for Works and Pensions -
Twitterthe Dutch realise autonomous vehicles won't work with bicycles in urban centres -
Guardianthe education secretary who introduced GCSEs now thinks they should be abolished -
TESchildren's books and text complexity metrics -
Oxford BlogBrexit will bring a slow but steady pilfering of British industry -
Guardiana "clean" Brexit is likely to be really dirty -
Monbiotthe sum-product problem: another unsolved problem whose statement six year olds can understand -
Quantahave the wowsers won the struggle over Internet censorship? -
EnGadgetpeel things back and the US Navy doesn't look so impressive... -
NavyTimeswalking to school: Sydney in 1977, Oxford in 2018 -
Oxford Blogmodern weather forecasts are stunningly accurate -
Atlantic [via Cosma]am I ever going to get to walk the Overland Track and see the Walls of Jerusalem? -
GuardianGoogle's AlphaFold beats rivals at protein structure prediction -
Mohammed AlQuraishi"direct minimization of the predicted energy function, using gradient descent, is sufficient to yield a high accuracy fold"
Britain received more Marshall Aid than Germany, but used it trying to maintain the Empire, instead of for industrial investment -
BBCa cycle path alongside HS2 would deliver greater returns than HS2 itself -
Guardianthe third most discriminatory regime in the world -
972mag"in the event of no deal my rights fall away on 29 March 2019. I then have a stark choice: my husband or my mother" -
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