Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: April 2020

Springer has made hundreds of books freely available online, including Aigner+Ziegler's fantastic Proofs from THE BOOK! - Springer

the educational and equity costs of school closures - Economist

the UK needs local "shoe-leather" contact tracing teams - Guardian

the impact of coronavirus on Mongolia - reliefweb - Medium

is anyone else wondering how many series it will be before @numberblocks gets to category theory? - Numberblocks

my ramblings on reopening English schools - Oxford Blog

Soviet caricatures of Nazis - UniverseDiscourse

Paris and Milan plan emergency reallocation of space for walking and cycling - Forbes

From Pythagoras to Schoenberg - Music by the Numbers [my review]

will lockdown revitalise Italian schooling? - Guardian

one of the best curated Getty Museum challenge responses - Reddit

don't try to turn your home into school - Guardian

people underestimate the cost of owning a car - Nature

(they also underestimate the costs of commuting)

central Milan plans for far fewer cars - Guardian

the dancers of the French National Opera perform at home - Instagram [video]

COVID-19 epidemiology based on the Wuhan experience - @XihongLin

the UK government needs to commit to building a robust test-and-trace system - Guardian

John Conway talking about how he invented the Game of Life - YouTube

some fantastic online maths courses - Mathigon [via @MrEfinch]

locked down on Mykonos, caring for mother with Alzheimers - Politics

how can the UK cut driving while building roads? - Conversation

a London chapel's role in the Russian Revolution - HackneyGazette

how Saudi Arabia has radicalised Indonesia - Guardian

traffic congestion may be inevitable; so where do we want it to be? - Weetman [via @RobertWeetman]

a timeline of the UK Goverment's woeful response to the coronavirus crisis - BylineTimes

federal structures seems to have been useful in both the US and Australia - Guardian - Straits Times

dying of despair: the working class whites in the US - WashingtonExaminer

vale John Horton Conway - Guardian

everyday exercise: lockdowns and low traffic neighbourhoods - OxfordBlog

a comparison of French and British responses to the coronavirus crisis - TomForth [via @thomasforth]

Camilla Grudova's short fiction: bleak and grimy but uplifting - The Doll's Alphabet [my review]

from January, the UK no longer wants "low-skilled" care workers, nurses, hospital porters, cleaners, or postal workers - FreeMovement

Stalin, not the atomic bomb, forced Japan to surrender - ForeignPolicy

Hans Rosling was wrong: global inequality is getting worse, not better - JasonHickel [via @Suchmo83]

Jakarta is only shutting down now... - Guardian

Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution - Darwin's Rival [my review]

time to start wearing masks - IdleWords

"'All right,' said the Gruffalo, bursting with laughter. 'You go ahead and I'll follow two metres after.'" - Guardian

don't use Zoom - Schneier

we need widespread testing _and_ a community track and trace system, or there's no path out of our predicament - Guardian

Willa Cather's poem "I Sought the Wood in Winter" - WillaCather

is there better government-industry collaboration behind Germany's coronavirus response? - Reaction

"From 5st of April 1970 it will be illegal to gather in groups of one (or more)" - Scarfolk

"If you are found within 6 feet of yourself, whether in public or at home, you could face prosecution resulting in a fine or a prison sentence of up to 6 years."

coronavirus lessons from the AIDS epidemic - Vox

how to be curious instead of contrarian - Rex Douglass [via Bactra]