#Roads

Tom McDermott

helmandproject

Loving re-reading Slim’s ‘Defeat into Victory’. As @UrchTyrone says, one of the best and most readable all round books on military affairs. Slim’s eight lessons from the original Burma defeat

Garrett Broad

GarrettBroad

I'm glad that @BrianKateman concludes that animal advocacy still matters, even as he supports cell-cultured meat (as I do): "relying solely on technologies...to disrupt the conventional meat market would be

Adam ™ Ford

adamTford

What happens to those urban deer after they are translocated to a more 'wild' area?New paper published in @wildlifesociety, led by #WiRELab @fos_ubco PhD Student Chloe Wright shows us the

Alex Marthews 🏴

rebelcinder

Note how, in an article scaremongering about @signalapp and links to extremism, the only actual example provided is an 800-member "Stop The Steal" group on @TelegramApp. Why is that?https://usanewssite.com/news/signal-barely-knows

Khev O'Keeffe

Kevsational

A new stochastic process from urban science: the taxi drive. In analogy with real taxis serving passengers, the taxi-drive travels to randomly chosen destinations (nodes on a graph) via shortest

Jasmine Shah

Jasmine441

How did the first year of the third AAP government in Delhi go – amidst an unprecedented global pandemic? Long thread below on my reflection of the signature achievements of

Evelyn Teh

evelayn

Penang used to lead in public transportation. It was among the first urban centres in Southeast Asia to operate steam trams, electric trams & trolleybuses. Pictured is an electric tram

Boldee

boldee101

1/ We hear a lot from some people about how a lockdown should be truly a full lockdown and everyone stays at home with only NHS staff allowed to go

Bayo Adeyinka

greaterbayo

Travelogue: Ibadan-Hills, Bottoms, Masquerades & Research More than 15 years ago, I met an Italian who had lodged at KS Motel at Total Gardens, Ibadan. He was in Ibadan for

Mary Beth Williams

wampumpeag

Back in 2005, when I was covering the Jack Abramoff Senate hearing, I discovered (and blogged on) a meeting between John Weaver and Karl Rove which led to John McCain,

How Bowers

GoAwayGreen

For years, I've read online that the meandering brown path running through Liberty Square is supposed to represent poop, thrown out of windows from chamberpots to settle in the street.

Steve

stevothecab

1-With less taxis on London’s roads and drivers calling time on a profession going back 400 years, @SadiqKhan has a lot to answer for. Bent on killing London as a

galway must be destroyed

verycooljimbo

From the 1933 Amulree Commission: "Rival politicians were accustomed to make the wildest of promises involving increased public expenditure ... electors in many cases preferred to vote for a candidate

NWWashingtonWX

wx_washington

1. More -SN today as mstr overruns cold air. Model performance : horrible/inconsistent! Best bet: watch observations, satellite imagery, pressure gradients, and radar. All show weak convergence ongoing. Likely amts

John Blake

johndavidblake

Fairly obviously, that Robert Jenrick article about statues turns out not to have been a very fair representation of the issues it purported to tackle.https://twitter.com/sundersays/status/1350584333720047626 As a person obsessed with

Sajal Sehgal

SajalSehgal

Current situation on the disputed India-China border is alarming to say the least. What makes it more disconcerting is the noise and speculations on all forms of media. Sharing some

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