Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: November 2016

we're not in the 1920s, but fascism is on the rise again - Conversation

"mainstream conservatives fear the drift of their own voters to more muscular, anti-immigrant demagogues on the right [and] espouse the right's priorities and accommodate its hate speech"

the conservatives are selling out to the radical right - Guardian

Brexit is going to be protracted, disorderly, hamfisted - Guardian

the Putin generation seeks security and stability - NationalGeographic [via Cosma]

letting Catholic priests into Australia was a mistake - Monthly

a famous Go encounter: the Ear-Reddening Game - Senseis [via AndrewGelman]

the limitations of randomised controlled trials - NakedCapitalism

not managing at all in Pontypool - Guardian

an introduction to large scale balance in atmospheric flows on the spinning globe - YouTube

Brexit: the view from Brussels is pretty gloomy - CER

a call for action on weight bias - JEadDisord

is K stuck in a simulation? - Another Man's City [my review]

just put in the bollards, just do it! - Guardian

road crashes cost the UK 2% of GDP - FleetNews [via @beztweets]

the Rockefeller Fund versus Exxon - NYROB

who will command the robot armies? - IdleWords

the UK is going to have to build entire new bureaucracies to replace shared European ones - NewStatesman

a map showing the most common word in each country's Wikipedia article - Imgur

tax reliefs are welfare for the wealthy - WaitingForTax [via @JolyonMaugham]

a children's book update, approaching four - Oxford Blog

"a failure to reach an agreement after 2 years would be damaging for the rest of the EU, catastrophic for the UK" - FlipchartFairyTales

the US is an institutionalised two-party state - JacobinMag

the KKK and the American Nazi Party are happy with Trump's decisions so far - CNN

the idea that global warming is the result of solar variation is completely bogus - RealClimate

What can the world learn from educational change in Finland? - Finnish Lessons 2.0 [my review]

git for humans - SpeakerDeck [via Cosma]

India is now blinding people en masse in Kashmir - Guardian

just like the Victorians, today's middle classes use morality to assert class dominance - Jacobin

"car crash" financial services Brexit planning by government: "no decisive leadership, no firm grasp of the issues" - Sky

be afraid, be very afraid, but prepare to fight - NYROB [via @marklauer]

cheap online deliveries + no labour regulation = stupidly low wages (speeding vans, congested streets) - BBC

the Japanese are boring realists when evaluating Britain's future - Guardian

most US citizens have limited access to the legal system - NYROB

what role for India in the UK's post-Brexit economy? - Bloomberg

how the Dutch do sustainable safety - AsEasyAsRiding

Poems in the Fu Form From the Han and Six Dynasties - Chinese Rhyme-Prose [my review]

three textbooks - Fractal Geometry / Fractals Everywhere / A Tale of Two Fractals [my review]

the fascists in Hungary are falsifying the history of 1956 - HungarianSpectrum

teaching Ugandan primary school children how to detect bullshit health claims - Vox

the latest study of the role of transport in health - Lancet

May offers a special club for ultra-rich Indians, but her immigration obsession blocks any free trade deal - Guardian

boycott Daily Mail advertisers? - @StopFundingHate

after allowing for parental background, Australian private schools do no better than public ones - Age - IZA

Kaifeng: being Jewish and Chinese - NYT

MAD legacy: the pyramid in remote North Dakota - Fusion [vis Cosma]

a Dutch supermarket: enabling cycling actually makes driving easier - AsEasyAsRiding