August 2021

Amsterdam continues "knipping" central car routes - @kentslundberg

ten historical landmarks in scientific computation - Nature

harpy eagles are pretty amazing - My Modern Met

escaping Hawking's black hole paradox - Quanta

street management changes: how to level the playing field - Ranty Highwayman

Germans contemplating a wave of Afghan refugees: "wir schaffen das" - @tomescritt

(interestingly with stronger CDU/CSU than SPD support)

a genome sequenced from a 7000 year old from Indonesia - Nature - Guardian

the term "vulnerable people" is problematic - Rewriting Social Care

Iran's Gondishapour Library looks lovely - @LivingInTehran

Indonesia's poorest suffer from Covid lockdowns - Guardian

the English Greens elect a new leadership - Guardian

London to Morecambe by bus, in 21 hours 24 minutes - BBC

use Dutch auctions for parking permits? - Greater Greater Washington

Israel has means, motive and obligation to provide vaccination to the West Bank and Gaza - Haaretz

the possibilities and challenges of lab-grown meat (cellular agriculture) - Guardian

a Palestinian aid worker has spent five years in prison for an alleged multi-million dollar fraud - Guardian

ranking the translations of The Tale of Genji - Tony's Reading List [via @MAOrthofer]

electric cars are going to bring new parking problems - BBC

opening bookshops during a pandemic - Guardian

hundreds of thousands are leaving Hong Kong for the UK - Guardian

how venomous snakes got their fangs - Conversation

an overview of what's new with the IPCC AR6 climate change report - RealClimate

myths of simple genetic inheritance: the danger of teaching errors - UDelaware

_Walkable City_ ten years on - Governing

"The number of cars moving on the streets of your city at any given time is not some natural law."

the IPCC AR6 WG1 report is out... - IPCC

I've read the summary for policymakers, the technical summary will take a bit longer...

flood risks: development and demographic change are exacerbating global heating effects - Bloomberg

from the elementary to the infinite - Combinatorics and Graph Theory [my review]

positive portrayals of cycling in ads for unrelated products - Bike Pretty

helping to scale up vaccine production - Oxford University

a novel of a woman's life in modern South Korea - Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 [my review]

Ethiopian state media offers a distorted view of Tigray - African Arguments [via @africaupdate]

the Australian Federal electoral pendulum following redistribution - Antony Green

forcing the cardinality of the continuum: א₁ or א₂? - Quanta