Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: June 2015

Greece can't save money cutting the pensions of people who don't have them - Guardian

requiring helmets stops bike-share schemes working - HelmetFreedom

more than Pippi: two of Astrid Lindgren's other books - NYROB

the Netherlands starts "sexuality education" in kindergarten - PBS

image-classifier failure: "Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears" - GitHub [via Cosma]

the meaning of the Confederate flag - Atlantic

measuring the health benefits of cycling in the Netherlands - AJPH

"Cycling prevents about 11 000 deaths each year, and Dutch people have half-a-year-longer life expectancy because of cycling. These health benefits correspond to more than 5% of the Dutch GDP."

Dovid Bergelson's modernist shtetl novel - Descent [my review]

a death metal cover of John Cage's 4'33 - YouTube

above 1, injury is the most frequent cause of death; over 3/4 among 10-18 year olds related to traffic incidents - RCPCH

but the RCPCH policy recommendations for England don't even mention transport or transport policy!

Chinese science fiction, Three Body and the worst of all possible universes - Tor

an introduction to tuberculosis population biology - PUP [(first chapter free PDF)]

a critique of Oxford's 1970 Road Plan - OxCivicSoc [PDF via @ParadiseOxford]

can more blood be got by tightening the screws on Greece's poor pensioners? - Guardian

why isn't the latest papal encyclical available in Latin? - Vatican

meet Barcelona's radical new mayor - Guardian

children's health and risky outdoor play: a systematic review - MDPI [via @bikesandbabies]

a film about the banned Nazi hate films - NYROB

lazy "Yellow Peril" racism is alive and well in climate politics - Monbiot

the housing crash we had to have: the Australian bubble - Prosper

humanities theses as single tweets - NYer

bibliotherapy: can reading make you happier? - NYer

how the UK builds shoddy, dangerous cycling "infrastructure" - DFT

ambitious plans to fix Seattle's transport problems - Grist

what "heritability" actually means - ScientiaSalon [via Cosma]

I'm now using Zapier to push Pathologically Polymathic to Facebook - Zapier

(very happy with it so far)

a review of Oliver Jeffer's _The Heart and the Bottle_ - BrainPickings

we read this several times and Helen enjoyed it, but she didn't (fortunately) actually understand what was happening

flexi-schooling is entirely legal in England - Guardian

it just needs the headteacher's agreement

the 1977 politics of boat people arriving in Australia - Guardian

alleviating turtle guilt - TetZoo

Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant [my review]

one kindergarten class spends a day a week in the woods - NPR

visualisation of numbers of language speakers, worldwide - SCMP

what can books tell us about their owners? a Magdalen College exhibition - FB

Maghreb, Sudan + Sahara; Islam, empires + trade - Trans-Saharan Africa in World History [my review]

medical ethics and the Australian Border Force Act - FairerSociety

student success depends on family status, not school choice - Age