[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Centauri Dreams celebrates the science behind Cassini.
- Crooked Timber’s Henry Farrell is breaking from Harvard’s Kennedy Centre over its revocation of an invitation to Chelsea Manning.
- The Crux points to the ways in which the legacy of Cassini will still be active.
- D-Brief notes that some tool-using macaques of Thailand are overfishing their environment.
- Hornet Stories notes the eulogy given by Hillary Clinton at the funeral of Edie Windsor.
- Inkfish notes one way to define separate bird species: ask the birds what they think. (Literally.)
- The LRB Blog notes the recent passing of Margot Hielscher, veteran German star and one-time crush of Goebbels.
- The NYR Daily notes the chilling effects on discourse in India of a string of murders of Indian journalists and writers.
- At the Planetary Science Blog, Emily Lakdawalla bids farewell to the noble Cassini probe.
- Roads and Kingdoms notes a breakfast in Bangladesh complicated by child marriage.
- Towleroad notes an Australian church cancelled an opposite-sex couple’s wedding because the bride supports equality.
- Arnold Zwicky notes the marmots of, among other places, cosmopolitan and multilingual Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 16, 2017 at 1:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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