[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- From last month, Charlie Stross imagined how the Laundry of his ongoing fiction series would have reacted to Boris Johnson as their superior.
- The Big Picture shares photos of winning Olympians.
- blogTO celebrates the Leslie Street Spit and south Etobicoke.
- Centauri Dreams notes a study of some of the smallest and most planet-like brown dwarfs.
- The Dragon’s Tales considers the possibilities of relatively recent supernovas affecting Earth.
- Far Outliers looks at the fur trapper culture of the American west in the early 19th century.
- The Map Room Blog links to a study of the Brexit vote in maps.
- Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen links to two columns, one on the end of economic miracles and one on what Danish-Americans do better than Danes.
- The Planetary Society Blog notes Russia’s plan to drop the number of its astronauts on the International Space Station.
- Peter Rukavina wonders who are the 25 subscribers to The New Yorker on the Island.
- Savage Minds has a couple of posts noting the way the skills of anthropology can be made to apply outside the discipline.
- Window on Eurasia looks at Russia’s interest in non-citizens in the Baltic States.
Written by Randy McDonald
August 17, 2016 at 5:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
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