[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Acts of Minor Treason’s Andrew Barton has a photo of the Danforth subway tunnel, looking east from Chester at a point where Pape is barely visible.
- Beyond the Beyond’s Bruce Sterling writes about a Montréal exhibition of the history of computing.
- Crooked Timber’s John Quiggin starts an insightful discussion, inspired by the controversies about same-sex marriage, about the ideological cleavages in France.
- The Dragon’s Tales Will Baird discusses exoplanets: briefly, dim orange and red dwarfs frequently have Earth- and Neptune-sized planets but not larger giants, while there are fewer Earth-sized planets than one would expect from the distribution of discovered ones.
- Eastern Approaches notes that clerical sex abuse scandals are starting to break in Poland.
- Far Outliers’ Joel quotes Chinua Achebe on the anti-Ibo pogroms of Nigeria in 1966.
- Language Hat links to a site examining documentary evidence of the presence of the French language in pre-revolutionary Russia.
- Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money writes about the collapsing infrastructure of the United States.
- Peter Rukavina describes how he used a 3-D printer to print replacement parts for his desk. The replicator cometh.
- Torontoist examines the origins of the name of Toronto and points to Andrew Cash’s interest in bolstering the position of precarious urban workers.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell is rightfully unimpressed by the incompetence of British Tory Iain Duncan Smith.
Written by Randy McDonald
May 27, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
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