Creative cities; Iceman Ötzi; Car-free cities; car tires kill salmon; chilly music; covid race; polio

Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division & New Order; Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health

Paulo Barcellos Jr., CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

1. Don’t give up on cities (we desperately need to rethink them; tbh, I just love a good, walkable city): ‘don't write cities off just yet, argues Metropolis author Ben Wilson – history tells us they thrive best after a crisis’;

2. In my book on the science…