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the US is a giant tax haven - Economist
out-of-school programs teach students real mathematics - Atlantic
"to think about math conceptually and use that as a tool to predict, explore, and explain the world... a dearth of rote learning"
Coventry's twinning with Volgograd, seventy years on - Guardian
a nice profile of mathematician Michael Atiyah - Quanta
Complicated Stuff in Simple Words - Thing Explainer [my review]
mass cycling doesn't mean everyone cycles, it means everyone has the option to - AsEasyAsRiding
how widespread is cheating in professional bridge? - NYer
museums are closed across northern England, while London gets an outrageously expensive "garden bridge" - Guardian
a fascinating idea, but it also seems more than a little dystopian - NYer
"AltSchool embeds fish-eye lenses in the walls of its classrooms, capturing every word, action, and interaction, for potential analysis."
a novel about a Jewish-Palestinian love affair is banned from Israeli schools - Guardian
"considerations about preserving the identity of the nation and the significance of assimilation"
the politics of language diversity in Bangladesh - OUP
training rats to sniff out tuberculosis - Guardian
reformist successes in Iranian elections - Guardian
the UK government is now spending about £1 per person per year on cycling - Road
fixing an academic unit? sack 15 academics, create 4 more departments, and appoint 6 new administrators - CanberraTimes
obsession with assessment is bad for teachers and students - TES
maybe there's hope for the United States: a poll of 18-26 year olds - Intercept
physicians on air pollution in the UK - RCPLondon
it's costing us 40,000 deaths and £20 billion a year
Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities - Confucianism as a World Religion [my review]
"an attack on consumerism and waste disguised as a personal-finance advice column" - NYer
some nice animated mathematics videos - 3blue1brown [via Quanta]
sea-level change in millennia past and future - RealClimate
three textbooks compared - Chaos and Fractals [my review]
detained for eight hours by UK immigration for wanting to do a PhD - THE
hooked on social media - NYRB
a nice profile of Michael Orthofer and the Complete Review - NYer
penal trannsport to Siberia is not what it used to be - SiberianTimes
more inhumanity from the UK government's migrant-hate - Guardian
what we can learn from having reached Peak Paper - Aeon
the Catholic Church still runs Ireland's primary schools - Guardian
the US is killing people based on statistical analysis of metadata - ArsTechnica [via Cosma]
"0.008% false positive rate would be remarkably low but corresponds to 15,000 Pakistanis potentially being misclassified as 'terrorists'"
Poland is following Hungary into intolerant authoritarianism - NYROB
Australia switched to decimal currency fifty years ago - SMH
ethnic cleansing in the West Bank - B'Tselem
Clive James on the BBC's latest War and Peace - Guardian
a long backgrounder on Trident, the UK's strategic nuclear deterrent - Guardian
"Trident may or may not keep us safe. The hope is, and always has been, that it will keep us important."
writing the history of the French Resistance - NYRB
more irrationality from the UK government: David Cameron blocks compulsory school sex education - Telegraph
nice piece on the gravitational wave discovery - NYer [via Robbie]
the Finkbeiner test for writing about female scientists - CJR [via Juz]

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