@DannyYee

Oxford (ex Sydney), books, sustainable transport, education, science, mathematics. Mastodon and BSky with same handle

 Oxford (was Sydney)
danny.oz.au/
Joined May 2009
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car dependency is crippling the UK theconversation.com/how-the-… "for the UK to be more like Singapore, the government needs to make motorists pay much more for their car use. To be more like the Netherlands, it must take away their space"

How the UK’s dependency on cars slows down the economy

Clogged up Britain

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insights from Hammersmith Bridge nickmaini.substack.com/p/ham… (Nick Maini) "closing a major bridge carrying 25,000 daily vehicles should lead to more traffic on other nearby crossings and less economic activity on either side. The evidence shows the exact opposite."
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Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City… (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"
Red book cover. Top half, all in capitals, white "BIKE CITY", black "AMSTERDAM", small white "HOW AMSTERDAM BECAME THE CYCLING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD". Bottom half, black and white photo of a woman cycling, sticking her tongue out towards the photographer, above black "FRED FEDDES" and white "in collaboration with Marjolein de Lange - UITGEVERIJ BAS LUBBERHUIZEN".

ALT Red book cover. Top half, all in capitals, white "BIKE CITY", black "AMSTERDAM", small white "HOW AMSTERDAM BECAME THE CYCLING CAPITAL OF THE WORLD". Bottom half, black and white photo of a woman cycling, sticking her tongue out towards the photographer, above black "FRED FEDDES" and white "in collaboration with Marjolein de Lange - UITGEVERIJ BAS LUBBERHUIZEN".

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what are 16-18 year olds thinking? demos.co.uk/research/inside-… "workshops and conversations with over 700 students ... reveal a generation that is thoughtful, diverse and far more politically aware than many assume"

Inside the mind of a 16-year-old: From Andrew Tate to Bonnie Blue to Nigel Farage - what do first...

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Hi Twitter! Are you about to head home on your commute? Here are 12 easy hacks to beat Oxford's Congestion Charge. Don't forget to share! oxfordclarion.uk/twelve-easy…

Twelve easy hacks to beat Oxford’s congestion charge

Don't want to pay? We got you. Here's the tea on how you can avoid the congestion charge entirely, and still visit all your favourite places in the city centre. Here's the official website, but our...

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the Ukrainian use of aerostats pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2…

More than just balloons: how Ukraine produces aerostats and why they matter in modern warfare

It's a cold autumn morning. A small group of soldiers fuss around a winch, trying to conceal it under a tree. An instructor and a commander supervise the process. Once the winch is hidden and the...

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road injuries are massively underreported - their estimated cost to UK is over £55 billion a year actionvisionzero.org/2025/10…

AVZ Blog – Road collisions and casualties—how many? How much do they cost?

29th October 2025 How many? Imagine if for every person reported seriously injured in a collision, there were another three seriously injured, but that these were not reported to and by the police.…

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the two-child benefit cap: increasing child poverty while failing to achieve its goals largerfamilies.study/publica…

Benefit changes and larger families

We are a group of university-based researchers investigating how families with more than two children are coping with the benefit cap or the two-child limit.

largerfamilies.study
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The History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_W… (my review)
Book cover with red stripe along spine, rest yellow with title "The History of Wales in Twelve Poems" and author "M. WYNN THOMAS" above a black (with one flower in blue and a yellow circle) illustration and "illustrations by Ruth Jên Evans".

ALT Book cover with red stripe along spine, rest yellow with title "The History of Wales in Twelve Poems" and author "M. WYNN THOMAS" above a black (with one flower in blue and a yellow circle) illustration and "illustrations by Ruth Jên Evans".

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Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War dannyreviews.com/h/Europes_T… (my review) - "a long and involved, but rewarding, account of one of the most traumatic periods in European history"
light cream book cover: "PETER H. WILSON" in black at the top with "Europe's TRAGEDY" in red below, then a black and white drawing of a tree with a score of people hung on it and soldiers with pikes standing around underneath, then "A NEW HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR" in black at the bottom.

ALT light cream book cover: "PETER H. WILSON" in black at the top with "Europe's TRAGEDY" in red below, then a black and white drawing of a tree with a score of people hung on it and soldiers with pikes standing around underneath, then "A NEW HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR" in black at the bottom.

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advances in enumerative geometry quantamagazine.org/new-math-… (Quanta)

New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems | Quanta Magazine

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very beginning of mathematics.

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Stockholm's approach to getting cars out of the city politico.eu/article/stockhol… (Politico)

Stockholm’s plan to get cars out of the city

Instead of imposing permanent pedestrianizations, authorities are backing pop-up schemes to make streets temporarily car-free.

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the closure of a methodist chapel newstatesman.com/politics/re… (New Statesman)

The death of a church

The closure of a Methodist chapel on Tyneside tells a story of England’s dwindling congregations – and highlights the loss of a vibrant community life that cannot be replaced.

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I had a great time today helping marshal Oxford's Kidical Mass ride. We had over 200 riders, half of them children, which was a record. oxfordclarion.uk/kids-claim-…

Kids claim the streets of Oxford

The latest Kidical Mass family bike ride attracted a record turnout, according to organisers Cyclox. More than 200 cyclists of all ages converged in Oxford ringing bells as they circled the city...

oxfordclarion.uk
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Would be great if all these people were able to cycle around Oxford all the time, not just on a specially organised ride.
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Leonard Barden's chess commentary was already an institution when I was a nine year old playing in my first tournaments theguardian.com/sport/2025/s…

Record-breaker: Leonard Barden’s chess column celebrates 70 years and a place in history

Now 96, this week marks a milestone for our columnist, whose astonishing career has set a Guinness World Record

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Local residents have set up a petition to oppose an increase in parking at the proposed Warneford Park develpment. The plans create an additional 230 car parking spaces, which residents say are likely to result in at least 500 extra car trips a day. actionnetwork.org/petitions/…

No increase in car parking at Warneford Park!

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and University of Oxford are jointly planning a major redevelopment of Warneford Park as detailed on the Warneford Park Consultation website, which will result in a...

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Oral history integrated into a compelling narrative - my review of David Van Reybrouck's _Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World_ dannyreviews.com/h/Revolusi.…
Book cover. Black and white top half is a photograph of maybe a dozen people at a rally, with arms and flags raised, with some short blurbs. "Astounding" (Yuva l Noah Harari. "Utterly compelling" (Financial Times). "Superb" (Guardian). " A masterpiece" (Sebastian Mallaby). Bottom is red with large white title "REVOLUSI", smaller black subtitle "Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World" and white author "DAVID VAN REYBROUCK".

ALT Book cover. Black and white top half is a photograph of maybe a dozen people at a rally, with arms and flags raised, with some short blurbs. "Astounding" (Yuva l Noah Harari. "Utterly compelling" (Financial Times). "Superb" (Guardian). " A masterpiece" (Sebastian Mallaby). Bottom is red with large white title "REVOLUSI", smaller black subtitle "Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World" and white author "DAVID VAN REYBROUCK".

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Danny Yee retweeted
Danny Yee@DannyYee24 Aug 2025
Replying to @OxfordClarion
The plans also include 240 more car parking spaces. Making a mockery of the university's commitment to Vision Zero, as that will increase traffic at the junctions where Ling Felce and Jennifer Wong were killed, making safe redesigns impossible.
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