December 2020

learning and teaching on YouTube: a miscellany - @cicatriz

a rough guide to "herd immunity" - Clinical Infectious Diseases

some facts about covid-19 - Gideon M-K

a four-part history of network computing - Redhat [via @phaseit]

the 1971 Ibrox stadium disaster - BBC

the future of the relationship between France and Britain - Politico

42 is a Catalan number, as well as being The Answer - SciAm

new Cov-2 variant has estimated 56% higher transmissibility - CMMID

Barcelona reclaims street space for people - Guardian

picture essay: the Oxford coronavirus vaccine - Guardian

Bruce Schneier on the Russian SolarWinds/Orion espionage attack - Guardian

as China pushes linguistic assimilation, Mongolia revives its Hudum script - JapanTimes

a UK-EU trade deal will look like the Canada-US one... - UKandEU

high-speed multi-lane roundabouts are hostile to walking and cycling - @RantyHighwayman

a look at the B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2 variant - ScienceMag [via @trishgreenhalgh] - BBC

where did Eastern Australia's volcanoes come from? - Conversation

ten year old coal-fired power station written off as worthless - ABC

Blob Opera: a great distraction from the world! - Google

how free-market ideology has damaged Sweden's school system - SaveOurSchools

Kruskal, Conway, and surreal numbers - Discover

an e-bike with integrated automatic gears - Valeo [via @Rashomon2]

"An unfathomable mass atrocity is being perpetrated in China. The responsibility for doing something lies with all of us." - Guardian

Iran's ride-hailing service has flourished despite US sanctions - RestOfWorld

the effects of low traffic neighbourhoods: some evidence from London - LCC

the cryptocurrency ponzi keeps going - David Gerard

80s and 90s Japan: "wild, strange, incredibly diverse + unique in world architectural history" - @Furmadamadam

Sixth Carbon Budget assumes "a reduction in demand of 7-16% of total car-km in 2030 and 12-34% by 2050" - CCC

transport for two degrees - t4under2

How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change - Beyond Global Warming [my review]

bonkers market fundamentalism has UK state schools selling each other curriculum resources - Primary Colour [via @suchmo83]

will a sex scandal shake Orban's credibility? - Balkan Insight

Urdu sounds are disappearing from Bollywood songs - Dawn

"Fend for Yourselves": how car culture is embedded in the UK - Ranty Highwayman

the controversial Google paper on the risks of large language models - MIT Tech Review

the entire edifice of depression-gene studies rests on nothing - Atlantic

fascinating sounding new book on the Aztecs - HistoryToday

the mystery of the Gatwick drone - Guardian

how to teach children to swallow pills - e-LfH [via @ilana_abc]

should corporations be allowed to enslave people? - Slate

a pogrom in Tulsa in 1921 killed 300 Black Americans - CNN