Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: July 2020

potatos are cheap, so anyone hungry is just lazy... - Cooking on a Bootstrap

the looming unemployment crisis in Penzance, Plymouth and Exeter - Tortoise Media

a genuinely geometric perspective - Visual Complex Analysis [my review]

BP fined just £7000 for Shetland crude oil spill - BBC

the challenges of reopening universities in a pandemic - WonkHE

Chinese Heihe faces Russian Blago across the Amur - MO

a third of Bangladesh is under water, and it's still raining - Guardian

time to start a "boycott Poland" movement? - Guardian

casual acquaintances and weak-tie relationships may be more important than we think - BBC

accidentally resilient Athenian apartment design - Bloomberg CityLab

a new font for gamelan notation! - Kraton Jogja

rewriting disease history: pathogen paleogenomics - Nature

Around the World in Twenty Languages - Babel [my review]

climate sensitivity "very likely" between 2 and 5.7 degrees means a 5% chance it's over 5.7... - RealClimate

fifty benefits of more walkable streets - FastCompany Fifty benefits of more walkable streets

decarbonising household heating remains a huge challenge - Guardian

making Kurukshetra a model cycling city - PedalAndTringTring

repackaging rural China for urban fantasies - Sixth Tone

large Korean study suggests reopening secondary schools is much more dangerous than reopening primary schools - CDC

some interesting looking essays on mathematics and thinking - CognitiveMedium

reading at seven and a half - OxfordBlog

a "cultural Zionism" in a single-state Israel-Palestine? - MiddleEastEye

could Oxford's Cowley Rd look like this? - @RobertKwolek

Principles of Traffic Calming - YouTube

the problem with school progress measurements - SigPlus [via @jpembroke]

"schools have license to ditch abstract measures that have very little impact on learning, and overhaul labour intensive data collection processes"

the limitations of teacher "value-added" metrics - NBER [via Cosma]

"the standard deviation of teacher effects on height is nearly as large as that for math and reading achievement, raising obvious questions about validity"

ten great novels set in Germany - Guardian

Anne Applebaum, heretic - Guardian

latest UK testing suggests about a 0.3% community infection rate, consistent with other estimates - BBC - Covid19 Projections

is a bi-national Israel-Palestine the only alternative now to ethnic cleansing or apartheid? - Jewish Currents

"Divided societies that share power work far better than those that don't."

slavery in the Dutch East Indies - Conversation

why sharks matter - Guardian

The Art of Visual Storytelling - Children's Picturebooks [my review]

Goa and the Inquisition - Al-Zulaij Collective

the role of test motivation in intelligence testing - PNAS [via Cosma]

Buchanan in 1963 _Traffic for Towns_ - Carlton Reid

"Unless steps are taken, the motor vehicle will defeat its own utility and bring about a disastrous degradation of the surroundings for living. Either the utility of vehicles in town will decline rapidly, or the pleasantness and safety of surroundings will deteriorate catastrophically – in all probability, both will happen."

Scots Gaelic could be dead within a decade - Guardian

Anne Hidalgo's victory on a walking+cycling platform rests on her limited central Paris electorate - NewStatesman