January 2019

removing cars from Oslo's centre - Fast Company

the neverending joy brought by the UK's stupidly inflexible enforcement of inhuman immigration rules - Guardian

"there is not a single needs-based postgraduate scholarship at Oxford for British students" - Guardian

do disadvantaged families buy children's shoes at Clarks? - Guardian

"the European project knows no higher ideal than calm good living" - Guardian

the state and racial identity in Singapore - Atlantic [via Cosma]

the grave of Matthew Flinders has been discovered - Guardian

Ivan Rogers on Brexit: an hour lecture, or 11,000 words of text, but well worth your time - UCL

the coming parliamentary battle to stop no-deal: make or break on 5th February? - Politics

Mathematics Education Through the lens of Social Justice - TODOS [PDF via @Mathgarden]

"Oxford is a high tide of native naval gazing. It is a cesspit of self-administered and hidebound orthodoxy" - AlbionBeatnik

electric cars won't save us: Roman Pompeii needed a one-way circulation system and modal filtering to control congestion! - Forbes [via @carltonreid]

measuring the Rademacher complexity of a human learner - Bactra

before it was the Empire Windrush, it was the German transport Monte Rosa - Guardian

high temperatures during the day are one thing, but a 36° overnight minimum?! - ABC

climate change is making the Rhine unnavigable - Bloomberg

a first date! teaching history to a six year old - OxfordBlog

Vladimir Propp constructed a formal regular grammar in 1928 - Bactra

one of our teachers talks about the importance of storytelling - ReadingRealm

an extensive women in science reading list, covering many people I hadn't heard of - WomenYouShouldKnow [via @RipOffRed]

If electric cars are the answer, what was the question? - BMB

any no confidence motion in Parliament tomorrow will be preceded by a bill banning low-level letterboxes - @estwebber

with RCP8.5 emissions, a good chunk of the tropics will be almost uninhabitable in 2100 - NClimate

the delcine of adult education in the UK - Guardian - AXA

organisational, legal and international cybersecurity: three more layers for the OSI network stack? - PeterSwire [PDF via Schneier]

on reading and rereading Faulkner's _As I Lay Dying_ - LitHub [via @RipOffRed]

"for a certain type of person this is the thing they care most about: their right to drive wherever they want, whenever they want, whatever the wider cost to the community" - Guardian

excavations of a Scandinavian trading settlement: "the bead-makers of Viking Ribe were early victims of globalisation" - Guardian

Florida is finally reforming its child marriage laws - USAToday [via @blazing]

government supporters are happy to shred constitutional process when it suits them - @davidallengreen

Dar es Salaam: buses rather than a metro system - Guardian

how do climate models work? an introduction - CarbonBrief

premature births, poor cognitive performance, mental illness, dementia, but lets just ignore vehicle emissions - Guardian

Timothy Gowers looks at Craig Barton's _How I Wish I'd Taught Maths_ - Gowers

in Britain, even towns of 8,500 people are at risk of transport isolation - Guardian

a reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh - YouTube

Israel is still "mowing the lawn" in Gaza - Guardian

The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 [my review]

Singapore now has a cap on car ownership - Quartz

the future for increasing numbers of towns: water and air-conditioning are going to be life-critical - ABC

progress towards proving the Unique Games Conjecture - Quanta

a rant about the new school "activity passports" - NickTomJoeStory

a congestion charge for central Oxford? - OxfordBlog

an overview of the linguistic and archaeological evidence for the Indo-European homeland - AnnualReviews

making cities into happy spaces: Madrid, Rotterdam, Bandung, Toronto, Vienna - Monocle

Peter Hitchens versus an Oxford bus - MailOnSunday

twenty years of books are coming out of US copyright - NYT