OpenRailwayMap is also nice to play around with, if you are interested in railways all over the world.
Engineering
The Work of Building for Other Engineers: Platform & SRE Mindset
Anatomy of a Recruitment Phish - the things jobseekers have to deal with nowadays.
Environment
Climate action literacy interventions increase commitments to more effective mitigation behaviors [Paper] - people don't know which individual actions are useful. I should get rid of my pets.
Revealed: More than 24,000 factory farms have opened across Europe - those are some depressing maps.
Urbanism
A desire for a loud car with a modified muffler is predicted by being a man and higher scores on psychopathy and sadism [Paper] - this is an older paper, and the result is maybe not quite unexpected.
20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds - let's just leave this here: "Child casualties dropped by 46%, and children killed by 75%"
‘Cleaner, greener and absolute reliability’: trams make UK comeback - nice.
OpenRailwayMap - lovely way to visualise train lines worldwide.
El carril bus de la B-23 estarà llest al juliol: 7 quilòmetres per afavorir l'accés a Barcelona [Catalan] - new bus lanes into Barcelona
Europe was promised a new golden age of the night train. Why are we still waiting? - exactly!
Ever-higher: the rise of bonnet height, and the case to cap it - our classic Defender is probably around 100 cm, while our Berlingo is possibly 65 cm?
Random Morocco
Morocco's new cross-country cycling route - sadly gravel :-)
Terms of Service; Didn't Read - helpful terms of services summaries
Talking Heads Celebrate 50th Anniversary With ‘Psycho Killer’ Video Starring Saoirse Ronan - I am not sure if I like the video. The song is still great.
Lise Meitner [Podcast] - new to me, scientist working on nuclear fission around early in the last century.
The Korean Empire [Podcast] - overview of the history.
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