[BLOG] Some Friday links
- The Boston Globe‘s Big Picture reports on Olympics evictions in Brazil, compares school life in Boston and Haiti, and follows an elderly man climbing Mount Washington.
- blogTO suggests jets will not be coming to the Toronto Island airport and argues the city is unlikely to legalize Uber.
- The Broadside Blog examines the staggering level of income inequality in the United States.
- Centauri Dreams considers, in real-life and science fiction, the problems with maintaining artificial economies and notes the complexities of the Pluto system.
- Crooked Timber notes the problems of organized labour and Labour in the United Kingdom.
- The Dragon’s Gaze notes how atmospheric oxygen may not automatically point to the sign of life.
- The Dragon’s Tales maps volcanic heat flow on Io and wonders if that world has a subsurface magna ocean
- Far Outliers notes a popular thief in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and looks at the politicization of the German military after the 1944 coup.
- Geocurrents calls for recognizing the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan and Somaliland and looks at the geography of American poverty.
- Language Log notes Sinified Japanese.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money examines the complexities of race and history in New Mexico.
- Marginal Revolution notes that India unlike China cannot sustain global growth, approves of Snyder’s Black Earth, and notes poor economic outcomes for graduates of some American universities.
- Otto Pohl is not optimistic about Ghana’s economic future.
- The Planetary Society Blog evaluates the latest images from Mars.
- pollotenchegg evaluates the 1931 Polish census in what is now western Ukraine.
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer looks at why Syrian refugees will not be resettled in South America and observes that Mexico has birthright citizenship.
- Cheri Lucas Rowlands describes the negative relationship for her between blogging and writing.
- The Russian Demographics Blog examines rising mortality in Ukraine and notes changing ethnic compositions of Tajikistan’s populations.
- Savage Minds talks about the importance of teaching climate change in anthropology.
- Transit Toronto notes Toronto now has nine new streetcars.
- Whatever’s John Scalzi considers the situation of poor people who go to good schools.
- Window on Eurasia notes the lack of Russian nationalism in the Donbas, observes the scale of the refugee problem in Ukraine, and looks at Russian alienation of Moldova.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 18, 2015 at 7:05 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto, Writing
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