[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- blogTO’s Chris Bateman starts a discussion as to what should be done with the Gardiner Expressway.
- Centauri Dreams takes a look at solar system navigation from the radio signals of pulsars.
- The Dragon’s Tales points to a paper suggesting ways that astronomers could resolve planets in habitable-zone orbits orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, like Alpha Centauri A and B.
- Daniel Drezner considers trust in the state, particularly in the context of PRISM and the surveillance of Internet communications by the American government. (Trust does not seem warranted.)
- Eastern Approaches notes that the intersection of politics with the modernization of Poland’s energy infrastructure does bad things there.
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer takes a look at political procedure in the Colombian congress.
- At The Search, Leslie Johnston takes a look at pre-Internet online communities, like BBSes and Compuserve and Usenet.
- Technosociology’s Zeynep Tukefci writes about how Gezi Park’s demonstrators have organized themselves.
- Window on Eurasia notes polls suggesting that Georgians, despite the more recent wars, are less worried by challenges to their country’s territorial integrity than Azerbaijanis.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell confirms that David Goodhart is not to be trusted when he talks about immigration, not at all.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 13, 2013 at 4:35 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
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