[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait notes 2MASS J05233822-1403022, 40 light years away, a very low-mass star that’s just barely massive enough to be an actual star, not a brown dwarf. (The lowest-mass, in fact.)
- The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper examining the peculiarities of giant planets orbiting giant stars.
- The Dragon’s Tales links to a paper analyzing archeological remnants (shell middens) of the earliest Maori settlers in New Zealand.
- Joe. My. God. notes Roman Catholic cleric Robert Carlson, testifying about sexual abuse cases during his tenure as a bishop in Minnesota, stating he wasn’t sure if priests having sex with children was criminal.
- Language Log’s Victor Mair takes another look at the situation with the Arabic-language translation of Frozen, noting similarities and differences between the sociolinguistics of Arabic and Chinese.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the use of slave labour–often immigrant–in the fisheries of Thailand.
- Marginal Revolution comments on the exceptional difficulty of reforming Pemex, the Mexican state oil company.
- The Search looks at the results of a conference on community digital archiving, noting that the actual software is only a small portion of the overall effort.
- Savage Minds’ Simone notes the importance of text and tourism, looking at guide books to the Nordic Faroe Islands.
- Strange Maps’ Frank Jacobs describes a proposed urban development in Scandinavia, uniting Norway’s Oslo, Denmark’s Copenhagen, and the west coast of Sweden.
- Towleroad notes that Hong Kong is not allowing Britons the right to marry–including same-sex marry–at the British consulate in that city-state.
- Window on Eurasia notes potential problems with new Russian legislation on dual citizenship.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 11, 2014 at 4:56 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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