Pathologically Polymathic (Blog)
Web pages I've been reading (and some web pages I've created)
Last update: 29 September 2016 (RSS, twitter, Facebook)
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
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
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]
a nice graphical presentation of worldwide shipping routes -
ShipMap
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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