Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: March 2020

orangutans and otters play together in a Belgium zoon - CNN

some thoughts on "home schooling" in a crisis - Oxford Blog

(don't forget myrmecology and epigraphy!)

the enduring appeal of Jean Merrill's _The Pushcart War_ - NYer

Helen loved this, she read it in a day and then reread it

Covid-19 in Vietnam - DW

graph theory for children - Oxford Blog

Svetlana Alexievich's breathtaking oral history - Second-Hand Time: The Last of the Soviets [my review]

has the UK government finally realised we need to stop driving? - BBC

they need to cancel the Heathrow expansion and the Silvertown tunnel

thirty free ebooks from a fantastic publisher - Archipelago Books

a building from 25,000 years ago, made from the bones of 60 mammoths - Smithsonian [via Bactra]

good news: a possible test for whether someone has had COVID19 - medRxiv

the "blitz spirit" was an invention - Guardian - The Bombing War

"an instantly recognisable commodity... divorced from historic reality"

a journal article from 8 weeks ago, on January 24th: "no room for complacency ... the time to act is now" - Lancet - Reuters

The Language of Poetry - NYBooks

with tips on teaching children how to write it

Korea still faces a challenge, but they seem to have constrained coronavirus - Science

"What kind of normally intelligent and competent person gets into the crackhead Uber?" - AElkus [via Bactra]

poems with subaltern perspectives from within the Indian epic - Until the Lions: Echoes From The Mahabharata [my review]

an eight year old moves to Henry VIII's London - The Armourer's House [my review]

a potted history of British historical fiction for children - HistoricalNovelSociety

more UK policies that look like satire to the rest of the world - Guardian

more on Utrecht's 12,000 person car-free residential district - Guardian

can we please build something like this within cycling distance of central Oxford?

we're in a national emergency, but the UK government is still announcing major policies via leaks to journalists - ITV

I just wish they'd stop behaving like they're still in the middle of an election campaign, and start governing

it's unclear why Germany has such a low COVID-19 death rate - EuroNews

the real numbers are not interpretable in the complex field - Hamkins

Mongols, marmots and modernity - and epidemics on structured networks - Bactra

South Korea's Covid19 response may be a better model than China's - Diplomat

"an aggressive and transparent information campaign, high volume testing, quarantine of infected individuals, treatment of those in need, and disinfection of contaminated environments"

Google Translate now supports Kinyarwanda, Odia, Tatar, Turkmen, and Uyghur - Verge

the medical system in Italy sounds like it's at breaking point - WEF

meet the Downs-Thomson Paradox, linking road congestion and public transport times - Wikipedia

how the health systems in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan are facing COVID-19 - Lancet

a history of the URL - Cloudflare [via @phaseit]

a positive quality correlation between public transport and schools - BBC

Wageningen University and the future of food - Guardian

UK CO2 emissions have fallen, but progress is getting harder - CarbonBrief

"cars are now responsible for more CO2 than the entire power sector"

the best site I can find for global COVID-19 data - WorldOMeter