Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: December 2015

what Europe can learn about immigration from the US green card system - Bruegel

Audi drivers are much more dangerous than people on bikes - AsEasyAsRiding

how to raise a scientist? boredom and danger - WSJ

"Five minutes early is on time. On time is late." - Forbes

will the printed book last another 500 years? - LitHub

Israel's defense minister promises attacks on civilians, suggests Hiroshima and Nagasaki as models - EI

exploring South Korean culture and society - Korea: The Impossible Country [my review]

the Moscow-Archangel train as a gauge for Russian history - Economist

proposed Internet standard: HTTP status code 451 to signal censorship - IETF

peddling bullshit: the economics of cycling - Medium

the dangers of turning pre-school into school - Atlantic

etymology: "put a spoke in one's wheel" - OUP

George Monbiot answers questions about rewilding Britain - HillWalking

are Britain's National Parks 'ecological disaster zones'?

a few most moral: Breaking the Silence under attack - 972mag

suspects in India's biggest exam scam are being murdered - Guardian

How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - The Box [my review]

the intellectual legacy of economist Douglass North - WP [via Cosma]

between East Africa and South Asia - Medium

a tie for the shortest scientific paper ever - RealClearScience

Jane Austen's Emma as a pioneer of free indirect speech - Guardian

the Japanese are only just discovering real bread - JapanTimes

Finland's innovative policies come from good governance practice - DemosHelsinki

ten well-preserved bodies, from 90 to 5300 years old - AbroadInYard [via Anna]

classic nethack game gets its first update in a decade (including Pratchett tribute) - Kotaku

thoughts on the future of experiments in social science - ChrisBlattman [via Cosma]

sex chromosomes and why they shrink - Quanta

2015 Shell ad?!? "renewable energy is unreliable, like women" - Greenpeace

is behavioural economics cooler than psychology? - Medium

why is mortality so high for middle-aged whites in the US? - TPM

some lovely landscape photography from Iceland - BoredPanda

How Children Learn from Others - Trusting What You're Told [my review]

meta-review of literature on bicycling safety - ScienceDirect [via @AsEasyAsRiding]

"Wearing visible clothing or a helmet, or having more cycling experience did not reduce the risk of being involved in an accident."