Danny Yee >> Pathologically Polymathic (blog)

June 2021

<< May 2021 | July 2021 >>

fascinating sounding new book on medieval Ethiopia - Smithsonian Magazine
an industry update: supply and stock, e-bikes, infrastructure, politics - Cycling Industry News
"Infrastructure is not just cycle paths. For a true end-to-end journey to become viable by bike, cycle parking must be factored in ... and residential areas will have to be linked to arteries. People won't take that first step if the view outside their door is terrifying."
Babylon and the square root of 2 - Baez
DfT reiterates stringent rules for active travel funding - Carlton Reid
"All cycling schemes will need to include segregation or point closures to through traffic"
spare, minimalist stories of estrangement and communication failure - Everything Like Before [my review]
a desperate UK government has conceded almost everything to Australia - Lowy Institute
"The chips on the table were tariffs, and Australia seems poised to walk away with all of them."
the UK's road haulage crisis - Nationwide
how cities can better manage deliveries - Bloomberg
reviving traditional Mongolian embroidery - Global Press Journal
Australia is completely retrograde on decarbonisation - Guardian
the mathematics of bells and bell-ringing: a lecture - Gresham College
background on Amsterdam banning mopeds from cycle paths - MetroCount
more dysfunctional Oxford cycling infrastructure: Osney Mead - Oxford Blog
the great Hawaian pizza war - Economist
sitar master Ravi Shankar explains his instrument - @BBCArchive
we need less obsession with electric cars and more active travel - Oxford Uni - Conversation
a nice intro: "The Dutch and their Bicycles" - Loepsie
the genomic history of southeastern Europe - Nature
new cycleways in Sydney help enable a cycling boom - City of Sydney
how can it be right for child social care to be a profit-making enterprise? - Guardian
cats and Brutalist architecture - Bored Panda
I take a look at the "new" cycling infrastructure on the Botley Rd - Oxford Blog
the UK should shift to an all-adult army - RUSI
modal shift in the school run - we need more cycle parking! - Oxford Blog
the end of India's once thriving manual typewriter industry - Guardian
should Iceland pave its north-south cross-highland road? - IcelandReview
take down _all_ the statues? - Guardian
down and out in Tokyo and Fukushima - Tokyo Ueno Station [my review]
Utrecht is going to push motor traffic even further away from its centre - Bicycle Dutch
how Britain betrayed the Chinese sailors who served in the Second World War - Guardian

<< May 2021 | July 2021 >>

Pathologically Polymathic (blog) << Danny Yee