October 2019

Helen's school has acquired a "house" system - Oxford Blog

the UK government spent £800 million on a failed technical college programme - BylineTimes

British children's books: food banks are now a part of everyday life - Guardian

what's wrong with electric cars: are they a red herring? - RDRF

sum-of-three-cubes solutions now known (where they exist) for all numbers below 114 - Quanta

an interview with the Irish Border - Irish Times

ten cities and five millennia - Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City [my review]

the horrors of cycling in central Oxford - Oxford Blog

the Times and the BBC are now part of the government's fake news machine - OpenDemocracy

nearly half of Iceland's immigrants are Polish - Iceland Review

Bach the rebel: subversive before he was canonical - Lapham's Quarterly [via @phaseit]

baby bottles from Bronze Age Europe? - Conversation

'the West' and its walls - Strange Maps

Extinction Rebellion and the police - Medium

a progressive response to the ascendancy of Govian traditionalism in UK education - (il)logical teacher

Early Years teaching: a review of the evidence - Early Education [PDF]

it's the tail risks from climate change we should be worrying about - Tim Harford

infinity categories and Higher Topos Theory - Quanta

the mountain-climbing metaphor for mathematical research - Quanta

a good takedown of Plomin's genetic determinism nonsense - Mad in America [via @jayjoseph22]

small island myths of empire and trade - NewStatesman

unprepared for the next pandemic - Vox

the United States has a history of anti-car protests too - CityLab

ban SUVs from urban areas - Guardian

first thoughts on an Oxford controlled parking zone - Oxford Blog

a pedagogical history of compactness (in mathematics) - arXiv [via @phaseit]

Australia is not prepared for future bushfires: "the Federal Government is missing in action" - ABC

three of the reasons school assessment doesn't really work - Rebecca Allen

teaching to the test, cheating by teachers, and pupil exclusions

Early Indo-European Online: language lessons from Lithuanian to Tocharian - TexasAustin

why cars are killing more pedestrians, and what to do about it - Guardian

a small town in Denmark in the 1920s - A Change of Time [my review]

more than electric cars - FoE

"reduce car mileage by 20-60%... cancel all new road schemes... regulate fossil fuel car numbers... support car clubs and e-bikes"

Connecting Oxford: the councils propose real action on transport - WanderingDanny

a photographic review of the world's parliament buildings - @AFaulds

the UK's hostile visa regime is crippling its universities - Guardian