Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: January 2018

the Netherlands moves towards a single app for dockless bikes - BikeBiz

new book with introduction free online - The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacares, 1965-1966

the case for reading challenging books to children - Sapling

a dying town: the public health crisis in parts of the United States - Chronicle [via Cosma]

we still have to keep explaining basic science in the face of mass media climate change denial - RealClimate

the UK is completely unprepared for leaving the EU Customs Union - Sky

I've just discovered SageMath: five minutes to install it and work out how to use it to get the Tutte Polynomial of a complete graph! - SageMath

people in the UK have become more positive about immigration since the referendum - Medium

crewless electric barges coming for Dutch and Belgian goods transport - Guardian

matrix inversion is rarely useful - JohnDCook [via @phaseit]

Kenya is more enlightened than India on criminal defamation law - Wire

Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers - Questioning Minds [my review]

nothing has changed since I led a protest march in 1996 against Internet censorship - Quillette

anti-immigration fanaticism overrides the needs of the health system - Guardian

freelance programming in the 1950s - Guardian

Google crunches the data to find how its best teams work - WP

"Project Aristotle shows that the best teams at Google exhibit a range of soft skills: equality, generosity, curiosity toward the ideas of your teammates, empathy, and emotional intelligence. And topping the list: emotional safety."

Ursula Le Guin has died at 88 - NYT

Penelope suggests moving the bed: a case study in translation - @EmilyRCWilson

the school just south of Helen's is "orphaned" - Guardian

the steady progress of Paris' liberation from motor vehicles - CityLab

the full range of cake options for the UK from Brexit? - @37paday

Sadiq Khan backs cars over clean air, peaceful parks, or cycling - AndrewGilligan

the baby advice book industry - Guardian

stop the march of the Robocars before they destroy our cities - Register

Norway is going to get a say in Brexit too - Guardian

my comments on "Movement and the Public Realm in Oxford City Centre" - OxfordBlog

how the BBC fails to question Brexit lies - NewEuropean

not only does the Netherlands have the best cycling infrastructure, but Dutch drivers are the happiest as well - Waze

the complicated history of radical feminism and trans-phobia - N+1

the reality of EU treatment of African coffee growers - @EmporersNewC

ambitious proposals for reconfiguring central Oxford transport - OCC

a progressive transport policy would focus on buses more than trains - Politics

typical rural cycling in the UK: a choice between mud and 70mph traffic - @AsEasyAsRiding

the politics of funding the Metropolitan Line extension - LondonReconnections

"London agreed to fund a transport project, with no cost ceiling, that primarily benefitted a Conservative marginal seat outside of the capital."

northern Australian raptors intentionally spread fires - Crikey

Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall - Stasiland [my review]

Treason in the Northern Quarter: the Dutch Revolt as an ordinary "dirty war" - PrincetonUP [(chapter 1 free online)]

from the Boer War to WWI Flanders - The General [my review]

the death of an oil rig - Guardian

making parking at hospitals free is a dementedly stupid idea - Guardian

"they live in herds" - YouTube

a nice illustration of the hypocrisy of "whataboutery" - VictimFocus

Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming in 1959 - inkl