August 2018

half the Dominican government's revenue comes from selling passports - Economist

there are downsides to English "swallowing the globe" - Guardian

no deal plans show how Brexit "results in us losing all control and will drown businesses in red tape" - Politics

the evolution of bat echolocation - KoryosWrites

how schools abuse progress metrics: P8 and the European Computer Driving Licence - Medium

a personal view of school segregation in New York - NYT

the only way driverless cars will work is if we ban walking and cycling - Bloomberg

Ada Lovelace was a real programmer - there were bugs in her code - TwoBitHistory

Sydney is facing steadily increasing bushfire risk - Guardian

cars on the decline in Manchester property development - BisNow

a music-first primary school - Guardian

Australia tries to legislate around encryption - MarkNottingham

writing and literacy in ancient Mesopotamia - Cuneiform [my review]

ocean chemistry in its broadest context - The Oceans: A Deep History [my review]

Barcelona leads the way with municipalist politics - NYer

André Gorz: private cars are like private beaches - UnevenEarth [via @Urban_Turbo]

outsourcing local government: the poor bear the brunt of ideological experiments - Guardian

in praise of a prosaic curriculum - PrimaryTimery [via @MrEFinch]

give your children the gift of boredom - Guardian

some comments on the Gilligan report on cycling in Oxford - OxfordBlog

yes, Norway is expensive - OxfordBlog

why frictionless trade matters for the UK - IFG

don't eat raw centipedes, you might get rat lungworm disease - ScienceNews [via @gringene_bio]

reconstructing ancient Greek music - Conversation