[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- Centauri Dreams considers the idea of dispatching a fleet of sail-equipped probes to map the asteroid belt.
- Crux considers the importance of the invention of zero for mathematics.
- D-Brief notes that Scotland’s oldest snow patch is set to melt imminently.
- The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper looking at the stability of multiplanetary systems in star clusters.
- Imageo notes the modest recovery of icecaps in the Arctic this summer.
- Language Log notes the importance of Kazakhstan’s shift to using the Latin script for the Kazakh language.
- The LRB Blog reports on a writer’s visit to Helsinki.
- The Map Room Blog notes a giant relief map of Guatemala, built to reinforce claims to what is now Belize.
- The NYR Daily considers the continued salience of race in the fragile liberal-democratic world, in America and Europe.
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer wonders if the heavy-handed Spanish government is trying to trigger Catalonian independence.
- Roads and Kingdoms considers the palm wine of Senegal, and its vendors.
- Understanding Society considers the Holocaust, as an experience sociological and otherwise.
- The Volokh Conspiracy makes a libertarian case for open borders.
- Whatever’s John Scalzi celebrates his meeting mutual fan Alison Moyet.
- Window on Eurasia notes how Belarus’ cautious Belarusianization is met by Russia’s pro-Soviet nostalgia.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 21, 2017 at 2:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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