Danny Yee >> Pathologically Polymathic (blog)

May 2025

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against "dual provision" cycling infrastructure Oxford Blog
Flanders is taking cycling seriously ECF
"Between 2014 and 2023, its cycling modal share increased from 12.5% to 19%... The Flemish government’s 2024 coalition agreement outlines a target of reaching a 30% cycling mode share by 2040."
When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be [my review]
why archers didn't volley fire Unmitigated Pedantry
"we have no evidence for archer volley fire because they didn’t do it and they didn’t do it because it doesn’t solve a problem that exists with bows (whose rate of shot is fast enough not to require volley tactics) but it does cause all sorts of new problems (exhausting your archers)"
Bergen's new bike tunnel is a fantastic public space, not just a route Not Just Bikes
a robust natural experiment suggests the shingles vaccine reduces dementia risk by 20% Stanford Medicine
Voices from Gaza B'Tselem
"For two months now, Israel has been blocking the entry of food and humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, deliberately starving over two million people, including more than one million children."
a Birmingham bus trip The Bee
"Birmingham was cruel to my parents: it contained rich resources that they struggled daily to access, for the simple reason that the city was not built with their needs and means in mind."
the role of women in the 2025 Australian election ABC

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