January 2024
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misogyny and feminism are behind South Korea's startlingly low birth rate -
AtlanticSweden, Norway and the Netherlands have committed to Vision Zero -
Action Vision Zerotools to achieve it include traffic reduction, speed reduction, and other safer infrastructure changes
congestion in cities: is road capacity expansion a solution? -
Science Direct"increasing network capacity is in general not an efficient solution to manage congestion, in the sense that the average travel speed in the network does not increase substantially with an increase in capacity"
increased risk of a California megastorm/megaflood with global heating -
Weather Westwhy Australian cities keep laying "hot" black asphalt -
ABCshould temperature be defined in terms of entropy (as Joules/bit)? -
arXivproperly regulated, electric cars are at lower risk of fires than petrol and diesel ones -
Conversation"A 2023 report by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency found vehicles powered by internal combustion engines were 20 times more likely to catch fire than electric vehicles"
the Oxfordshire section of the Conservative "blue wall" could come tumbling down at the next election -
Oxford ClarionElon Musk versus the Swedish employer-union bargaining system -
Guardianthe debates over the introduction of the house sparrow to the United States -
Audubonpacking the plane with discs of three sizes -
arXivhow big a table does one need for a jigsaw puzzle? -
arXivwinners from the Royal Society's 2023 photo competition -
Royal Societyour footways are falling into (the) cracks -
Oxford BlogOxfordshire County Council needs to make someone responsible for them
the strange ideas of the great biologist Bill Hamilton -
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