[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Centauri Dreams notes one source suggesting red dwarf stars may produce too little ultraviolet to spark life on their planets.
- Hornet Stories notes how LGBTQ Dreamers will be hit badly by the repeal of DACA.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money approves of Frederick Crews’ critical takedown of Freud as a scientist.
- The LRB Blog looks at a new South Korean film examining the Gwangju massacre of 1980.
- The NYR Daily notes that China seems set to head into a new era of strict censorship, with calamitous results.
- The Planetary Society Blog considers the 40th anniversary of the Voyagers in the light of the Pale Blue Dot of Carl Sagan.
- The Signal reports that, for archivists’ purposes, online newspaper sites are actually very poorly organized.
- At Spacing, Adam Bunch notes how Upper Canadian governor John Simcoe’s abolition of slavery was not quite that.
- Window on Eurasia notes the continued official contortions around Circassian history in Russia.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 6, 2017 at 1:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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