[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning deep-field pictures of intergalactic space.
- Centauri Dreams shares the second part of Larry Klaes’ analysis of Forbidden Planet.
- D-Brief suggests that controlled kangaroo hunting may be necessary for the ecological health of Australia.
- Bruce Dorminey notes a new radio telescope in British Columbia that may help solve the mystery of fast radio burst.
- The Dragon’s Gaze notes that quasars can irradiate a noteworthy fraction of potentially Earth-like planets.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money comes out against the idea of giving Amazon massive tax breaks for HQ2.
- The LRB Blog bids a fond farewell to Saturn probe Cassini.
- Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting new ideas–hence, new sources of economic growth–are harder to come by.
- Maximos62 recounts a quietly chilling trip to East Timor where he discovers a landscape marked by genocide.
- The New APPS Blog is quite unsurprised by news that Russians may have used Facebook to manipulate the US election.
- At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane bids a fond farewell to colleague Len Wein.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw does not think Australia is committed enough to affordable housing to solve homelessness Finland-style.
- Roads and Kingdoms reports from the Suwalki Gap, the thin corridor joining the Baltic States to Poland.
- Peter Rukavina looks at how a storied land rover was recovered from St. Helena.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel lists the top six discoveries of Cassini at Saturn.
- Towleroad notes fundamentally misaimed criticism of new AI that determines sexual orientation from facepics.
- Window on Eurasia looks at contemporary Russian fears about the power of rising China in Russia’s Asian territories.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 13, 2017 at 2:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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