Danny Yee

Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)

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What Preschoolers Really Need From Grownups - The Importance of Being Little [my review]
a lively and opinionated history - An Introduction to Children's Literature [my review]
time to boycott Coventry University? - Guardian
why historical CO2-temperature correlations don't give the climate sensitivity - RealClimate
the rise of tabletop gaming and Oxford cafe Thirsty Meeples - Guardian
the bizarreness that is English cathedral governance - EcclesiasticalLaw
(and then there's the weirdness that is Christ Church, Oxford: a university college as well as a cathedral chapter)
could the war against rats be over? - Guardian
it's the conservatives in the Labour party who are engaging in Stalinist purging - Guardian
faster sequencing to improve treatment of resistant tuberculosis - NewScientist
rat-running taxis are trying to stop London becoming a liveable city - Cyclable
the last ten years have revealed the central failing of social psychology statistics - Gelman [via @mertz_david]
a field built on "p less than .05 results obtained using abundant researcher degrees of freedom"
recordings of Ayatollah Montazeri opposing mass killings in late 1980s Iran - RadioFreeEurope [via Informed]
"If people on pedal cycles are to be safe, 'share the road' must die." - SingleTrack [via @beztweets]
the political history of pockets - Racked
Jeremy Corbyn would be an unremarkable, mainstream social democrat in Norway - OpenDemocracy
Shimano Nexus 8 hub service? SG-8R31 versus SG-8R36 redline - Oxford Blog
"who could have predicted the combination of gutlessness, vacuity and incompetence [Turnbull] has delivered?" - Guardian
Britain's brutal post-1945 secret wars - Guardian
the richest and loudest (bankers, landowner subsidies) will be protected from the Brexit fallout - InFacts
photos of cycling, worldwide - SteveMCurry
a simple change to Oxbridge admissions could help to broaden school quality - Guardian
lovely story about adults continuing their school game of tag - Guardian
the origins of the expression "welp" - Slate [via Bowern]
the transport geography of early childhood - Oxford Blog
nice cognitive bias "cheet sheet" - BetterHumans [via @dnunan79]
a Zambezi puzzle: do Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia meet in two tripoints or one quadripoint? - FutilityCloset [via @divbyzero]
a popular piece on gut microbiome research - Guardian
toddlers and preschoolers don't live in adult time - VisibleChild
repeating patterns, from the plane to higher dimensions - The Symmetries of Things [my review]
the UK government's inaction on obesity is a scandal - Lancet
Nottingham's workplace parking levy has been a success - CityMetric
100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World - End of Empire [my review]
Korean short stories about aging and being old - Lonesome You [my review]
life and death in Hebron - Guardian
a nice graphical presentation of worldwide shipping routes - ShipMap
OECD comparisons show how clearly US healthcare is failing - VisualCapitalist
Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons had a Syrian connection - BBC
grouse moors illustrate how the rich simply buy laws, public opinion, and subsidies - Monbiot
the Department for Transport doesn't really do walking or cycling - AsEasyAsRiding
surely "High Visibility Burqa" is actually a statement about car-centric transport policy? - Bloomberg

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Danny Yee