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The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology - Euler's Gem [my review]

what it's like to be a drone target - Independent

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

this is what passes for a "Cycle Superhighway" in London - @hackneycyclist

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 - Nature

explaining 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

some thoughts on teaching mathematics - Oxford Blog

a tragi-comic existentialist novel - Moscow Stations [my review]

Sustainable Solutions for UK Cities - Urban Transport Without the Hot Air [my review]

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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