Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: August 2017

the Conservatives are rejecting Thatcher's greatest achievement - @davidallengreen

Russia has been secretly pushing anti-EU disinformation on social media - Times

flooding kills hundreds, leaves millions homeless - Guardian

Why Good Incentives are no Substitute for Good Citizens - The Moral Economy [my review (@yalepress)]

how leaded petrol was approved and used for so long - BBC

a vintage VW campervan to the Peak District - Oxford Blog

an anonymous Chinese novel from 1804 - Mirage [my review]

D'Aulaires' and Atticus - Greek myths for children [my review]

Germany's north-south divide - Economist

vale Brian Aldiss - Guardian

integrating physical activity into everyday life works, planned (or bribed) exercise doesn't: build cycle paths instead - Sky

only with truly bizarre assumptions can Brexit be made to seem good for the UK economy - UKTPO

Cambridge University Press censors 300 journal articles for China - Guardian

the UK government is still negotiating Brexit with the domestic media (and itself) - @davidallengreen

how Gaiman and Pratchett came to write Good Omens - BBC

The Prehistory and Internal Relationships of Australian Languages - Academia

Robert Graves on Greek myth, is he all bad? - Memorabilia Antonina

a short Chilterns walk: Studley Green to Piddington return - OxfordBlog

there is no substance at all to the UK's proposals for the Irish border - Politics - Guardian

how the apple conquered the world - ScienceMag

the UK government still has no coherent plan for customs post-Brexit - Politics

any meta-argument about Godwin's Law will inevitably descend into a debate about the pronunciation of "gif" - @sfmnemonic

authoritative parenting explained - ParentingScience

"women in engineering/computing" viewed as a quality control problem - CrookedTimber

the possibilities for a UK-EU trade agreement - IIEA [PDF]

the Swedish-Norwegian border as a model for Ireland? - IrishTimes

could a city of 5 million operate with no cars and no mass transit? - Guardian

UK residents remember Partition - BBC

was it the marketing of personal computers that halted the pre-1985 rise in women doing computer science? - NPR

by 2070 the Indus + Ganges valleys may face heatwaves fatal without airconditioning - ScienceMag

US universities now discriminate against women, in favour of men - Vox

entitlement and affirmative action in Texas university entry - Jezebel

"To be against affirmative action, you have to be some combination of dumb, selfish, or deeply indoctrinated."

is the smartphone making a generation unhappy? - Atlantic

"There's not a single exception. All screen activities are linked to less happiness, and all nonscreen activities are linked to more happiness."

we need fewer cars in cities, going electric is not going to be enough - Guardian

another example of the stupidly hostile (and just stupid) UK immigration system in action - Guardian

ctenophores and the evolution of nervous systems - Aeon

Denmark sees huge socioeconomic returns from building cycling infrastructure - CyclingIndustry

little girls racing big horses in Mongolia - AlJazeera

Russia is back to persecuting those who want to reveal Stalin's crimes - Guardian

get transport planning out of the grip of the car - Guardian

a preschool inside a nursing home - Atlantic

a nice-looking new Ramayana version for children - Scroll - TimesOfIndia

Australian backyards are vanishing - Conversation

all the disadvantages of suburbia without the advantages

British tourists think stealing from hotels is acceptable - Guardian