[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that the Earth can easily survive without us.
- blogTO notes that the Aga Khan Museum recently made an appearance in Star Trek: Discovery, as Vulcan.
- Centauri Dreams notes the way neutron star collisions and kilonovas can be used to examine physical laws in extreme circumstances.
- Hornet Stories notes that trans political candidate Danica Roem, in Virginia, is getting lots of positive attention.
- The LRB Blog visits Gdansk only to find popular anti-Muslim xenophobia thriving.
- The NYR Daily looks at photographic and other legacies of the Jamaica dancehall scene.
- The Planetary Society Blog looks at the evolution of SETI from the 1960s to the present.
- Roads and Kingdoms looks at the struggle of astronomers, in West Texas and elsewhere, to preserve dark skies.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at the ways in which GW170817 has confirmed the Standard Model.
- Window on Eurasia argues that reactionary conservatism in Russia is making that country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic worse.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 26, 2017 at 3:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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