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Aluminium pricing is tied to coal pricing -
BloombergCity of London to seek permission for 15mph speed limits from Secretary of State for Transport -
ForbesLondon boroughs that took out cycle lanes and LTNs may lose £100m in funding -
City AMan overview of the UK's gas supply challenges -
UKERCBrooklyn Bridge operated at peak capacity in 1907 - with no public transport, it now moves fewer than half as many people -
Streetsblog [via @YokohamaRides]3600 years ago a Mesopotomian city was destroyed by a meteor -
Conversation"load carriage" options for overburdened light infantry -
Think Defencetwo thirds of the particulate pollution from cars is non-exhaust -
Tire Technology"while exhaust emissions have been tightly regulated for many years, tire wear is totally unregulated – and with the increasing growth in sales of heavier SUVs and battery-powered electric cars, non-exhaust emissions are a very serious problem"
the difference between methane and carbon dioxide as greenhouse gases -
Real ClimateHackney is putting a bus gate on a 10000 car/day road that looks very much like Oxford's Cowley Rd -
HackneyChina's unregulated tiny cars -
Rest of World"Beijing banned the sale of tiny cars in 2018, but sales have quietly resumed over the past two years as authorities have chosen to look the other way."
a 280km triangle walk around Oxford, following Roman road routes -
The Roman Way [via @Urban_Turbo]"Our Faculty Success Initiative Redefines Everything You Thought You Knew About 'Faculty' and 'Success'" -
McSweeneysa paramedic's view of Covid's effects on Sydney's health system -
GuardianRoots Revival: "Pain, Peace, Patience" - 16 new compositions -
YouTubeboycott bitcoin and any business that offers it as a payment option -
GuardianParis is being liberated from cars -
Slate"Fifty percent of public space is occupied by private cars, which are used mostly by the richest, and mostly by men... So if we give the space to walking, biking, and public transit, you give back public space to the categories of people who today are deprived."
snakes and the end-Cretaceous extinction event -
Nature -
Science Focus"Our molecular clock inferences suggest that as few as six extant lineages crossed the K-Pg boundary"
a history of the Historical Thesaurus of English -
OED"In the Car Last Community, the car is the least desirable mobility option, but that's not a problem because it's simply more convenient to get around on foot, by bike, or using public transit." -
Beyond Automobiletraffic evaporation: what happens when road space is reallocated -
City Fixadvances in plate tectonics: did India really speed up? -
Quantaclassic children's fiction in the Oxfordshire library system -
Oxford Bloghow do we do urbanism in the suburbs? -
Voxsome amazing photos of Jupiter taken by the Juno spacecraft -
PlanetaryCovid is hitting Vietnam hard, and people are going hungry -
Guardianyes, let's deal with deaths from road crashes, smoking and flu as well! -
Inside Storywhat would happen if cancer screening stopped? (it did, briefly) -
Atlanticthe NSA pushed a back-door into Juniper devices, then the Chinese hijacked that -
Yahooprogress in mathematical proof verification by computer -
Quanta"there have been posts here for probably 600 years" - the oldest modal filter in England? -
@carltonreidbackgrounder on Olaf Scholz and Germany's potential next governments -
NewStatesmantrying to cycle across Oxford with an 8 year-old -
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