January 2020

to reduce greenhouse emissions, worry about what you eat, not where it comes from - OurWorldInData

"Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert" - Psychological Science in the Public Interest

the next 11 months of Brexit negotiations explained (funny, but not funny) - Politics

a shortage of housing is not the primary driver of UK house prices - Mainly Macro

the UK government is all steam ahead with "f**k business" - Guardian

Canberra: out of the smoke and into the hail - Guardian

HS2: "hard to determine whether there will be any [regional] economic benefits" from £100+ billion project - Guardian

walking and cycling are more fun than teleporting! - @NWurban

how Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo is curbing cars and increasing cycling - Curbed

behavioural pseudoscience: Surrounded by Idiots - Medium

almost exactly one household in three in Oxford has no car - NomisWeb [(2011 census)]

reading at age seven: an update - Oxford Blog

"Is it possible to escape the home-ownership fetish?" - Economist

character-centered short stories by an Argentinian master - The Scent of Buenos Aires [my review]

looking at the downsides of making public transport free, Finland doesn't follow Estonia - yle

why religious discrimination in India's Citizenship Act is so dangerous - Wire

velvet worms and fighting grasshoppers: the fire threat to Australia's smaller animals - NYT

how reducing road provision can make motor traffic "evaporate" - RapidTransition

German childrens books in translation, from the last thirty years - Riveter

The Australian now does climate change denial denial - @KetanJ0

the catastrophically inept response to the fires of Australia's prime minister - Monthly

a murder mystery that's both lively and full of ideas - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead [my review]

papyrus fragments, mad evangelicals, and secretive Oxford dons - Guardian

a model for Oxford: Ghent's circulation plan - StreetFilms [video]

An Anthology of Basque Short Stories - Strange Language [my review]

now the UK has to make real decisions about an actual Brexit, it's going to get messy - Guardian

a 2008 study on Australian climate change impacts: "fire seasons will start earlier, end slightly later, and generally be more intense... This effect increases over time, but should be directly observable by 2020" - SBS

"The bookstore in the fire-ravaged village of Cobargo, New South Wales, has a new sign outside: 'Post-Apocalyptic Fiction has been moved to Current Affairs.'" - NYT

the ten inalienable rights of the reader - Poynton

Barcelona's superblocks - with a video on woman-centred urban design - BBC

in praise of walking - Guardian

is the Anglo-American world in a death-spiral to Soviet-style poverty? - EandCo