January 2021
<< December 2020 |
the Sami on Camera "an alternative history of Europe's longest surviving indigenous people" -
History Todaythe Reddit GameStop short squeeze explained -
Vice(this is hardly replicable - don't try this at home - but kind of amusing)
the car bundle paradox -
ASYMCOdon't those car companies look massively overvalued?
ten years on, Egypt's Arab Spring has frozen over -
Independenta Covid survivor: 30 days in hospial, 10 days on life support -
FTin 2019, the US birth rate was over 0.55 Miles per hour -
@lunasorcerythe October 2019 "World Health Preparedness Report" got epidemic-readiness completely wrong -
globalinequality [via @phaseit]Amsterdam embraces "doughnut" economics -
Timevaccines: everyone trusts the Germans, who don't trust anyone much -
LawyersGunsMoneythe UK is still Trumping along: denying diplomatic status to the EU ambassador -
BBC"British exporters are predicted to face €28 billion in losses this year alone as a result of reduced EU demand and increased frictions and barriers at the EU border" -
Politicothe UK re-classifies many classic PG films to 12A -
Guardianeven with mass vaccination, the UK needs a working test-and-trace system -
Monbiotphoto gallery: Java's Semeru and Merapi volcanoes -
Guardian(I have climbed both, back in 1994.)
when your library is big enough you can get your daily exercise finding books in it! -
@EvanKirstel [via @phaseit]from Zimbabwe to Rhodes Must Fall -
Guardianthings aren't looking good in Tigray -
ReliefWebclimate emergency: how do local authorities get people out of their cars? -
FoEhow has the UK population changed during Covid-19? -
UKandEUhuge potential gains from African Continental Free Trade Area -
World BankDutch government resigns over scandal -
BBCeven if this is with the coming elections in mind, it's notable that admitting failure seems best (contrast UK, Australia, etc)
dire wolves were not really wolves, but "the last of a dog lineage that evolved in North America" -
SciAmthis is Apartheid: A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan to the Mediterranean -
B'Tselem -
Haaretzwalking, cycling, driving become 3 to 4 times safer in London low traffic neighbourhoods -
Transport Findings"using Stats19 police data 2012-2019, we find a three-fold decline in number of injuries inside low traffic neighbourhoods after implementation, relative to the rest of Waltham Forest and the rest of Outer London... no evidence that injury numbers changed on boundary roads"
five days of remote learning and everything is running smoothly -
Oxford Blog [@larkriseprimary]outsourcing school meals: the government pays £30, children get £5 worth of food -
@RoadsideMumthe difference between 'geek' and 'nerd' -
BigThinkthe default speed limits in the UK should be lowered -
Oxford Blogbut making plane flights and cars more expensive is probably a good thing -
GuardianGreece's Golden Dawn fascists are on the out -
Guardiana short novel of aging and memory, of pain, suffering, love and joy -
Difficult Light [my review]France: "The spectacle of a government stumbling apologetically to vaccinate the willing and eager is unlikely to change the minds of the unwilling and suspicious" -
TheLocalhow complex can lichen symbioses get? -
Atlanticneither "open" nor "shut" are actually options for schools now -
Oxford Blog [my rant]the possible breakup of the United Kingdom -
UKandEUis "dyslexia" a catch-all label that has outlived its usefulness? -
Guardian"the one thing you should never do with a scapegoat is to kill it and eat it" -
Zeit"The EU scapegoat has now been ritually sacrificed to the gods of national identity in the hope that they will in turn bestow the greatness that holds Britain together."
a German town lures Polish emigrants from Britain -
Irish Timesit should be illegal to install wood-burning stoves in urban areas -
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