[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Centauri Dreams’ Paul Gilster writes about Titan, first noting an apparent river valley flowing into the north-polar Ligeia Mare, the second reflecting on the possible subsurface oceans of that Saturnian moon.
- At Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell reflects on the ignoble record of the Economist in relation to the Irish potato famine of the 1840s.
- The Dragon’s Tales’ Will Baird notes research suggesting that trees in the Amazonian rain forest have survived temperature peaks akin to those likely to be produced by global warming.
- GNXP’s Razib Khan links to a 1930 article projecting a total American population of 180 million by 1980, noting that long-range demographic projections are problematic.
- Language Log’s Victor Mair notes the problems with maintaining character fluency in Sinitic cultures like China and Japan.
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer observes that Ghana has been forced by a UN tribunal to return to Argentina a naval ship held at the request of Argentian’s debtors.
- A Registan guest poster, Anvar Malikov, observes that the questions of Afghanistan will dominate policy-making in Uzbekistan.
- Via Peter Rukavina, I’ve learned that peak electricity usage on Prince Edward Island amounts to 230 megawatts.
- Understanding Society’s Paul Little notes the imprecision of the social sciences relative to the physical sciences. Is this really an enduring difference, though, or will the social sciences catch up?
- Window on Eurasia takes note of growing regionalism in Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic.
Written by Randy McDonald
December 17, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
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