[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes a team of students who caught footage of the August solar eclipse from a high-altitude balloon.
- D-Brief notes the discovery that the early Moon apparently had a very thin atmosphere for tens of millions of years.
- The Dragon’s Tales links to Elon Musk’s descriptions of his space ambitions.
- Hornet Stories notes that many on the alt-right are upset that game Wolfenstein is all about shooting Nazis.
- The LRB Blog notes the almost ridiculous irony of Conservative Theresa May wearing a bracelet with the image of radical leftist Frida Kahlo.
- Russell Darnley looks at efforts to get Singapore restaurants to shift away from using environmentally damaging palm oil.
- The NYR Daily looks at the overwhelming power of the NRA in the modern United States.
- The Planetary Society Blog considers ways we can do SETI better by having a less Eurocentric understanding of our own history.
- Window on Eurasia wonders if Uzbekistan and Kyrgzystan could solve border issues through swapping enclaves.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the corrosive effect of Bannon, and journalistic culture generally, on politics.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 7, 2017 at 4:31 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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