Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)
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Last update: 24 April 2024 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)
cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas
Aeon
long biographical piece on Daniel Dennett
New Yorker
sets of points in the plane that are all integer distances apart: new results
Quanta Magazine
Korea's 4B movement: feminism against the patriarchy
Cut
the flaws in China's Myanmar strategy
Irrawaddy
"a character study, but one with an involving geographical and social setting and with good pacing and effective integration of its sub-stories"
The Pastor [my review]
local bus services are better value than large transport projects
Guardian
Glasgow's "Rusty Bridge" - undoing community severance
BBC
Empire of the Ants: supercolonies and people
Guardian
imminent famine: 1.1 million people face catastrophic food insecurity
IPC
Going to Church in Medieval England [my review]"a fairly comprehensive survey — who was involved, what they did and when, and the broader context, social, institutional, architectural and liturgical"
people don't drive as well as they think they do
BBC
Pankay Mishra on the Holocaust and Gaza
LRB"I had grown up imbibing some of the reverential Zionism of my family of upper-caste Hindu nationalists in India"
single-sex schooling and educational performance
BERJ"We find no association between attending single-sex schools and performance in mathematics, reading or science scores for either males or females"
rebuilding Oxford's Plain as a Dutch-style roundabout will require a major reduction in peak traffic flows
TRL"The impact of the new layout compared with an equivalent conventional roundabout with the same travel patterns was to reduce capacity by a little over 40%."
the effects of 30km/hr (20mph) speed limits in European cities
Norwegian Centre for Transport Research"the measure has produced desired effects, such as lower speeds, high levels of compliance, reduced noise and local pollution, no increase in travel time or congestion for vehicular traffic, and significantly fewer accidents, especially serious ones and those involving pedestrians and cyclists"
visiting Sydney: some thoughts on public transport
Oxford Blog
"an accessible overview of one of the most mysterious of ancient urban cultures"
Indus [my review]
the decipherment of the Herculaneum papyri
Nature
Cyclists and autonomous vehicles at odds
AI & Society"priorities for AI-enabled mobility and cyclist needs be advanced in proportion to the extent that they contribute to societal goals of urban containment, public realm, and proximal cities"
single-sex schooling and educational performance
BERJ"after controlling... we find... no significant difference in performance for girls or boys who attend single-sex schools compared to their mixed-school peers in science, mathematics or reading"
why are women so good at chess?
Proceedings of the Royal Society B [PDF]"96 per cent of the observed difference would be expected given the much greater number of men who play chess. There is little left for biological or cultural explanations to account for"
a good summary of Sydney's housing and transport challenges
ABC
it needs to be legal to advertise infant formula
Iceland
misogyny and feminism are behind South Korea's startlingly low birth rate
Atlantic
Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands have committed to Vision Zero
Action Vision Zerotools to achieve it include traffic reduction, speed reduction, and other safer infrastructure changes
congestion in cities: is road capacity expansion a solution?
Science Direct"increasing network capacity is in general not an efficient solution to manage congestion, in the sense that the average travel speed in the network does not increase substantially with an increase in capacity"
increased risk of a California megastorm/megaflood with global heating
Weather West
why Australian cities keep laying "hot" black asphalt
ABC
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