December 2019

fighting Orban's political appropriation of Christianity in Hungary - Guardian

a perspective on how Labour lost the "Red Wall" - @Sheff_socialist

Christianity Today comes out in support of impeachment - CT

you can't fit an uncountable number of Möbius strips into three-dimensional space - Quanta

the earliest evidence for a Christian church in Ethiopia - Smithsonian

after three and a half years talking about Article 50, we can now spend five years talking about Articles 207, 217 and 218 - UKandEU

self-driving cars are not a solution (for anything) - Jacobin

why Embankment has a different "mind the gap" message to the rest of London's Underground - BBC [via @garius]

"transport is now the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK and emissions are rising" - FOE

some amusing astronomy anecdotes - AstroAnecdotes

the waste and incompetence of US state-building in Afghanistan - Washington Post

Lessons Learned from Research, Conversations with Experts, and 12 Years of Mistakes - How I Wish I'd Taught Maths

Designing Child-Friendly High Density Neighbourhoods - Cities For Play

even 50 years ago climate models were accurately predicting global warming - Science

life in the Deep Sea: a graphical descent - Neal Fun

a history of poverty: Himmelfarb's "The Idea of Poverty" - History Today

some fun facts about random permutations - Baez [via @phaseit]

the "dynamic" losses from Brexit are likely to exceed the static ones - CER

hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent moving sand to maintain Adelaide's beaches - InDaily

the Jesuits in South America: give me the community for 150 years - AmericaMagazine - Quarterly Journal Economics

rethinking the city street: Melbourne as a prototype - Medium [via @harryrutter]