March 2015

a novel wound around modern Hungarian history - Stonedial [my review]

if non-hi-viz cyclists are suicidal, drivers of non-hi-viz cars are homicidal - BMJ

a Tasmanian bakery is a destination for Japanese fans of Kiki's Delivery Service - TransformativeWorks

how Amsterdam was saved for cycling (and walking) - CyclingAcademics [via @ParadiseOxford]

Wittgenstein taught in an elementary school for six years - ParisReview

if you want to kill someone in New York, use a car and you'll probably get away scot free - Freakonomics

How Child Language Illuminates Humanism - The Prism of Grammar [my review]

the socialisation of male speech dominance starts young - Alternet

fossil fuel firms still funding climate change denial - Guardian

I clearly need to expand my antilibrary - BrainPickings

no surprises: teaching can be taught

£115 fine for driver who kills someone while texting at 70mph in a 50mph zone - BeyondKerb

Marina Warner on the appalling state of higher education in the UK (and elsewhere) - LRB

toddler book update: favourite reading at two - Oxford Blog

nice introduction to the economic risks of climate change - PUP - first chapter [PDF]

the genetic diversity of the British peoples - Nature - Guardian

Magdalena Tulli's novel of love, commerce and war in an imaginary Polish town - In Red [my review]

the world's most sophisticated hackers: the Equation Group - ArsTechnica

Terry Pratchett's Unseen University faces a research assessment exercise... - THE

revealing font choices on Berlin's U-Bahn - Guardian

no surprises: praising children may encourage narcissism - Guardian

two million years of stone tools; 75 artefacts per square metre - Cambridge

children shouldn't start formal education too early - Cambridge

a mathematician tries to get his children out of the bath - Gower

Siberia: A History of the People + A History of the Peoples of Siberia [my review]

Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale [my review]

the rise and fall of Central Asian studies in the US - SarahKendzior

links don't have to be underlined blue text, but users still need clues - NNgroup

in countries/cities with more cycling, women cycle just as much - KatsDekker - BicycleDutch

hermit crab house upgrade chain - LaughingSquid

the current financial system is less efficient than that of 1910 - RussellSage [PDF via Cosma]

libertarians become petty chieftains on the hidden Internet - Aeon [via Cosma]

no surprises: systematic racial discrimination in Ferguson - Guardian

songbun: the strangeness that is North Korea's caste system - Guardian

a guide to consensual tea-drinking - RockstarDinosaurPiratePrincess

baby boxes and bounty bags highlight the difference between Finland and the UK - FFCAC

writing a shamanist Kalevala - Finland