Danny's Pathologically Polymathic: February 2023

why did fertility decline so early in France? - Works In Progress

Icelandic companies approve lockout of 20,000 workers - Iceland Review

"who wouldn't want to live where key facilities are within a short walk or cycle ride?" - Cycling UK

Nigeria goes to the polls - Guardian

San Francisco cycling and the first Critical Mass - KQED

night trains are making a comeback in Europe - Back On Track

a Good Move: Brussels' low traffic neighbourhoods and central pedestrianisation are working - Eurocities - Brussels Times

journalism and trans people - Onion

positive results from trials of a 4 day week - 4dayweek

from Great Salt Lake to Poison Dust Bowl? - Guardian

an interview with a Ukrainian artillery commander - War Translated / Pravda Ukraine

Budapest staging a War and Peace opera highlights Hungary's political stance - Guardian

Transport for London's analysis of its main road 20mph limits - TfL

"collisions involving a vulnerable road user decreased by 36 per cent, while collisions resulting in death or serious injury decreased by 25 per cent"

success in the search for "spherical cubes" - Quanta

pushed into the shadows, the Cultural Revolution still haunts modern China - Guardian

cars and roads in Wales: a review - National Infrastructure Commission Wales

"our guiding policy frameworks require us to recommend a rebalancing of policy away from enabling private car use and in favour of active travel and public transport, with social justice being key amongst them"

understanding indoor air pollution - Nature

how bar-headed geese fly over the Himalayas - Physiology (Bethesda)

Lyndon Johnson is looking better fifty five years on - Guardian

two decades as an Oxford classics librarian - Antigone

collisions in Norway: "Traffic volume has been by far the most important explanatory variable" - Accident Analysis & Prevention

with poverty and inequality, cities with low car ownership can still be car-dominated - Pedestrian Observations

Gothenburg as a model for a Cambridge congestion charge? - BBC

Amazon retail loses money, but AWS and Advertising rake it in - TBray

got to be an IgNobel candidate: "Small Penises and Fast Cars" - PsyArXiv

using "Level of Stress" analysis for cycling - MOBYCON

the pronoun choice revolution in Britain - Guardian

Canada votes to take 10,000 Uyghur refugees, despite Chinese pressure - Guardian