Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: September 2019

English school maths compared with Estonia: should we teach less, better? - Medium

Cargohopper: deliveries to central Utrecht - Fast Company

got a spider? give it a name and think of it as a pet - BBC

bring back Britain's rainforests! - Monbiot

navigation apps are antisocially selfish - IEEE Spectrum

Cycling Facts 2018 - Netherlands Government

Australia has failed to plan for the decline of coal - WEForum

the Intermediate Axis Theorem or Dzhanibekov effect - YouTube

Money creation in the modern economy - Bank of England

"Reader: I dyed my hair purple" - LongReads

Indonesia plans to move its capital to Kalimantan, Borneo - Nikkei

Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction - DannyReviews

teachers need time to learn from other teachers - Atlantic

a nice primer on traffic evaporation: closing residential rat-runs reduces overall traffic - London Living Streets

making a serious attempt to address Oxford's transport problems - Oxfordshire County Council

garlic smuggling - BBC

the challenges of bicycle freight in Oxford - TechTribe

the Bender Rule: 'Natural Language' is not a synomym for 'English' - Gradient

an American learns to cycle like the Dutch - NYer

towns in east-central Australia are wilting - Guardian

who gets to vote in Israel's elections? - 972 Magazine

"In the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, where Israel exercises absolute and direct control on a daily basis, 650,000 Jewish settlers can vote while 2,953,000 Palestinians in the exact same territory cannot."

nationalise the golf courses! - CityMetric

London is poisoning its children - Int J. Environ. Res.

Ronald Fisher and the tea test - Science History

in 1910 there was a plan to introduce hippos to the Mississipi delta... - @NomeDaBarbarian

on the priorities of autonomous cars - Oxford Blog

"the blindness of the question-framing here reflects the blindness of transport policy, where the convenience of people driving is continually prioritised over the safety of vulnerable road users"

Tokyo: Public Cycling World City - Sportify Cities

Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past - Who We Are and How We Got Here [my review]

Air Pollution and Dementia: A Systematic Review - Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

"the evidence from longitudinal cohort studies pointed towards an association between greater exposure to pollutants, in particular PM2.5, NO2/NOx and increased risk of dementia"

climate apartheid and migration - Guardian

a history of tetris randomizers - simon.lc

Leeds to get a car-free school, alongside a care home! - Guardian

Grace Hopper was a mathematician before she helped create computer science - Yale

improving the Open Street Map gender balance - CityLab

trying to save England's last bell foundries - Guardian