Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)
Web pages I've been reading (and some web pages I've created)
Last update: 14 April 2016 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)
The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology -
Euler's Gem [my review]
the UK has a church problem -
Apollo"16,000 committees, 16,000 separate systems of fundraising and finance, 16,000 different approaches to maintenance and repair"
the dark side of online comments: "of the 10 most abused writers eight are women, and the two men are black" -
Guardian
fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous or confused -
Frontiers
new bamboo-slip manuscripts force a rethink of the ancient Chinese canon -
NYROB
a comparison of tax-paying in Sweden and the United States -
Vox(I think property taxes are a good idea, though)
why is the Netherlands bucking the trend on obesity? -
DW
Igor Stravinsky's last interview -
NYROB
Pakistan's army goes into the Punjab -
NYROB
some sanity: the UK drops "baseline assessments" of four year olds -
TES
Narnia through a Hindu lens -
Mantle
the UK's education system is in the hands of people who think they know what they are doing but don't -
Guardian
a nice collection of reviews of children's books -
StorySnug
AlphaGo took a radically different approach to DeepBlue -
Quanta
better modelling of Antarctic ice-sheet contributions to sea-level rise -
Natureexplaining how "global mean sea level has been 6–9 metres higher as recently as the Last Interglacial (130-115 thousand years ago)"
UK teachers may boycott age-inappropriate testing -
TES
bash for windows! -
Verge
for women, short hair is a political statement -
NewStatesman
backgrounder on the Zika virus -
OUPblog
Danny Dorling on Restoring Oxford as the UK's Cycling Capital -
YouTube
the UK's housing crisis can be fixed by improving tenants' rights -
LongShort
advances in sphere-packing: E₈ and the Leech lattice proven optimal -
Quanta
new immigration rules will worsen the UK's teacher shortage -
Guardian
corporate profits in the US are too high: "Why have returns on capital risen almost everywhere?" -
Economist
evidence for a Bronze Age battle in northern Europe involving thousands -
ScienceMag
trashing the UK's state school system will enable a few people to make a fast buck -
Guardian
Malcolm Turnbull is the prefect who just stands by while the school bullies grind their victim's face into the dirt -
WritingInShadows
the rise of American authoritarianism -
Vox
running concentration camps is expensive -
Guardian
a backgrounder on why the Institute for Fiscal Studies is so respected -
Guardian
Rhodes Must Fall and institutional racism in Britain -
Guardian
arthropod, tetrapod and cephalapod limb anatomies -
Pharyngula
inflicting stupidly rigid testing on children, to browbeat teachers and schools -
Rosen
Israel's drift towards fascism -
NYRB
selfish people insist on being able to rat-run through London parks -
Guardian
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