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Western Desert dot painting has displaced other forms of Aboriginal art ABC

huge increases in cargo cycle use in London Bloomberg

if people aren't reading Moby Dick or Crime and Punishment, it doesn't mean they aren't reading novels CMSThomas

the reduction in road deaths was one of the great successes of New Labour, but from 2010 the Conservatives crippled road danger reduction measures City Monitor

the UK government has completely lost the plot on the climate crisis Guardian

Norway has implemented a weight purchase tax on all vehicles - about 90p per kg over 500kg Bluesky

Japan sends warship through Taiwan Strait Taiwan News

"A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism" Current Issues in Personality Psychology

the need for pluralism in climate modelling - GCMs are not the only useful tools Real Climate

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health: ban wood-burners in urban areas Guardian

backgrounder on Giorgia Meloni Guardian

traffic light exemptions for cycling? a new French study ECF

a new reconstruction of the last 500mn years of global temperatures RealClimate

how traffic danger destroys child mobility in Montreal Transport and Environment

Wales' Lee Waters on how to push back on road-building proposals Amanwy

"centres Copenhagen's experience but offers fairly general advice on urban cycling, drawing on examples from cities around the world" Copenhagenize [my review]

the cycling industry needs diversity and a much broader reach Cycling Industry News

"Imagine if you wrote a business plan and you said, right, there is a market of 100%.... we could sell to a wonderful big fat market. What we’re going to do, is we’re going to target 2% of it."

challenging states: decarbonising aviation Reiview of International Political Economy

French in Ontario: a perspective on minority language rights Grind

new UK transport minister backs local authorities to put in 20mph speed limits, cycle lanes and low traffic neighbourhoods Bloomberg

cycling transforms the lives of Indian schoolgirls BBC

some 130 short essays treating quite narrow topics, offering a "pointillist" rendering of French history France in the World [my review]

a controlled study of astrology Clearer Thinking

Göttingen's great mathematicians Conversation

Pascal's other wager was on public transport Long Now

cities are fighting back against noise pollution Bloomberg

30+ more LTNs coming in London; 100 out of 120 of the previous ones have been made permanent Standard

cars have pushed children off streets, killing community connections Atlantic

"restoring a culture of street play will require society to make much more far-reaching, permanent changes to the built environment"

the exchange of labour in the world economy is grossly unequal Nature

"Southern wages are 87–95% lower than Northern wages for work of equal skill. While Southern workers contribute 90% of [world] labour, they receive only 21% of global income."

a tipping point in the the Atlantic Overturning Circulation? Oceanography

the etymology of "path" Danny Bate

you can't get pregnant from eating squid (but you can get inseminated) Squid a Day

Bangladesh locks down violently as protests continue Al Jazeera

a post-apocalypse novel told from the point of view of one of the zombies It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over [my review]

how noise pollution harms children BBC

a German documentary on the British class system ARD

Welsh 20mph default speed limit: 32% reduction in injuries, 20% reduction in insurance claims, maybe £20 million saving for NHS

and that NHS saving is just from road casualties, without broader public health gains from more active travel and lower noise and air pollution

money, wealth, value: the United States and Europe are equally poor Palladium Magazine

ChatGPT is bullshit, but is it soft bullshit or hard bullshit? Ethics and Information Technology

adapting a Dutch cycle street for Vienna: Argentinierstrasse Dutch Cycling

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