[BLOG] Some Friday links
- Bad Astronomy notes the astoundingly successful imaging of the nascent HL Tauri system and its young planetary system.
- Centauri Dreams briefly notes some of the challenges of SETI, notably the possibility of very different life and intelligence.
- The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper examining how exoplanetary systems are structured mathematically.
- Eastern Approaches notes political turmoil in Georgia.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money mocks Bank of Canada governor Stephen Peloz’s proposal that the unemployed should work for free.
- John Moyer notes that the understanding of poverty in popular culture in North America is off. Poor people do not own chalets on the lakeside, as in one rom-com.
- Torontoist notes that the North by Northeast music festival will be setting up shopping on the grounds of the substantially empty MaRS research complex near Queen’s Park.
- Window on Eurasia notes Crimean Tatar controversies in Russian life and looks at the effect of migration to Moscow.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 7, 2014 at 3:56 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
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