[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Centauri Dreams hosts a speculative essay by one Adam Crowl imagining how life could endure for eons beyond the death of stars in an aging universe.
- The Cranky Sociologists’s SocProf studies the interaction between national identity and team sports in an era of globalization and migration.
- The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper analyzing the connection between a star’s metallicity and the likelihood of it hosting giant planets.
- The Dragon’s Tales links to a paper suggesting that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by itself lengthens the growing season, irrespective of warming.
- Eastern Approaches looks at the scandal in Poland following the sharing of Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski’s impolitic words about NATO and the American alliance.
- The Financial Times‘s The World blog wonders what the jeering of a female politician by her male peers means about gender equity in Japan.
- Language Hat looks at the languages used in soccer.
- Personal Approaches’ Jim Belshaw deplores the imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste in Egypt.
- At the Planetary Science Blog, Bill Dunford celebrates the many achievements of the Cassini probe at Saturn.
- Van Waffle of the Speed River Journal writes about the return of bullfrogs to his local lake this year, in the context of issues for amphibians generally.
- Torontoist features trans male Alex Abramovich’s writings about the personal and broader importance of pride.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 24, 2014 at 11:05 pm
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