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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
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
traffic light exemptions for cycling? a new French study
ECF
a new reconstruction of the last 500mn years of global temperatures
RealClimate
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."
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]
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
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
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
adapting a Dutch cycle street for Vienna: Argentinierstrasse
Dutch Cycling
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