March 2019

rethinking homework - Atlantic

Australia's oversize influence on 20th Century philosophy - Aeon

expensive consultants tell schools to save money by cutting lunch portions and taking money from charities - SchoolsWeek

an update on tax havens - Bruegel

12 months in Gaza: nearly 200 killed and 30,000 injured - Guardian

a short video on Waltham Forest's interventions to enable walking and cycling - YouTube

discussion of racism is dominated by white people - Guardian

33 as the sum of three cubes - Quanta

climate-change and overgrazing impact the Mongolian steppe - GlacierHub

one of the MPs who have to save the country: "I don’t even feel like a tiny cog in this machine" - Times

Stockholm's congestion charging was popular once implemented - NYC StreetsBlog

Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1850 - The Enlightened Economy [my review]

read to your children, even if you're in prison - BBC

borrow sugar from your neighbour - YesMagazine

forty years of studying life in ocean floor hot springs - Nature

pro-Bexit protest "swelled from a crowd of eight to a throng of around a dozen" - PlymouthLive

China is running an immense incarceration system for Uyghurs, with international silence - NewStatesman

it's now official: Brexit is delayed till at least April 12 - Europa

Danish billionaires start rewilding the Scottish Highlands - Guardian

Dutch 10-14yos cycling appear to have high injury rates, but for the distance cycled they are actually much safer than UK children - ResearchGate

"I want my street to be like this": contrasting Dutch and UK residential street design - Robert Weetman

Article 50 Extension Day, 2051 - Armchair Ideology

lessons from the Arizona self-driving car killing - TheDrive [via @Urban_Turbo]

parents fighting back against air pollution in London - Guardian

no yelling, no scolding: how the Inuit raise their children - NPR

the polyjuice potion has worn off: "an exclusive school for quasi-aristocratic magical Übermensch living off invisible slave labour" - UseJournal

the rise of five-over-one wood-frame "stick" apartments in the US - Bloomberg [via Cosma]

the cost of the War on Terror: $6 trillion since 9/11 - NewsWeek

an amateur mathematician has proved the chromatic number of the plane is ate least 5 - Quanta

CSIRO/AEMO study concludes that solar and wind now clearly cheaper than coal (in Australia) - RenewEconomy

reading complexity and constraints at six - Oxford Blog

stray dog joins in for climb of 7000m Nepalese peak - Outside [via @lizbatty]

New South Wales planning a million-dollar/metre road tunnel - BuildSydney

the hard realities of school funding cuts - Guardian

UKMAscript will be replacing ECMAscript - DylanBeattie [via @marklauer]

horses (or minitrams) for courses - was 1981 the nadir of cycling in Britain? - Oxford Blog

Chicago schools required to teach about police torture - Guardian

we need to get rid of almost all cars, starting now - Monbiot

I'm not trying to improve Oxford's transport for myself - Oxford Blog

forget electric cars, electric bicycles are the future - BikeEurope

the Royal Mail should be using e-cargobikes - Velove [via @PedalandPost]

the central ideas of mathematics, in their historical context - Mathematics and Its History [my review]

A Teachers' Manifesto - Flip the System UK [my review]

rethinking "success criteria" in primary school writing - JamesDurran

England is going to start testing four year-olds in English and maths - MoreThanAScore

my personal musical history - OxfordBlog