February 2018
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the Waltham Forest mini-Holland: lessons for Oxford? -
OxfordBlog [my rant]
the NHS should be prescribing social connection (as well as cycling) -
Monbiot
cycling risks, driver education, women and teenagers -
Oxford Blog [my rant]
a brief history of the Oxford English Dictionary -
Guardian
a brief backgrounder to 20th century Irish history and the Good Friday Agreement -
ProgressivePulse
as with the nuclear industry and Euratom, no one in the aviation industry wants to leave the European Aviation Safety Agency -
CAA [PDF]
Iceland may ban infant circumcision -
iNews -
CNN
the Flying Spaghetti Monster speaks out on human rights -
Stirrer
is Townsville Australia's future? -
Guardian
France still has 100 square kilometres of "no go" zone from WWI -
MessyNessyChic [via @dsquaredigest]
an introduction to the forty-year Dunedin longitudinal study -
Endpoints
cars are like mice, they are lovely in the right place -
RobertWeetman
Brexit isn't as mad as the Hundred Years War -
IrishTimes
five translations of the Mesopotamian epic -
Gilgamesh [my review]
a brief history of web browser user-agent strings -
WebAIM
a theological-historical detective novel -
Son of Man [my review]
"walk south on Cornmarket St towards Queen St" -
Google Maps
the UK immigration system is "a grotesque illiberal intrusion into the private life of individuals" -
Politics
mass grave of Viking Great Army found in Repton? -
CNN
on-going ethnic cleansing in Myanmar -
Amnesty
the Sydney Opera House car park is architecturally as interesting as the opera house itself -
ABC [via @jmfarrow]
what's actually taking up the road space in central London -
AsEasyAsRiding
Cape Town (population four million) is going to run out of water in April -
NYT
is Cape Coral the world's least environmentally sustainable city? -
Politico
visiting Ursula Le Guin a year and a half ago -
NYer
"diagonal cumulation" and the problems the UK faces grandfathering current EU trade deals -
Sussex
a novel of small town Java -
Man Tiger [my review]
having fewer toys leads to more creative play -
ScienceDirect [via VisbleChild]
long piece on classicist Mary Beard -
Guardian
the UK has low unemployment because it has so many jobs with appalling working conditions -
Guardian
whence came the popular culture obsession with good and evil, unknown to earlier myth and folk tale? -
Aeon
the difference between being pro-business and pro-wealth -
Harrowell
privatising English state schools turns out to be expensive -
Guardian
a 1986 story about Erno Rubik -
Discover
persecuting the homeless won't make them disappear -
Politics
road haulage is another Brexit challenge the UK needs to prepare for but isn't, along with nuclear materials supply and aviation access and safety... -
@SamCoatesTimes
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