[BLOG] Some Friday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the effort to name, for New Horizons, Kuiper belt world (486958) 2014 MU69.
- Centauri Dreams considers the possibility that Ceres might have a residual ocean underneath its surface.
- D-Brief notes the bizarre supernova iPTF14hls, which seems to have been a recurrent supernova for the past sixty years.
- The Frailest Thing’s Michael Sacasas argues we are already in a dystopia, one of Huxley not of Orwell.
- Hornet Stories notes that Ezra Miller was advised not to come out by his supposed allies in Hollywood.
- The LRB Blog notes an interesting exhibit, inspired by poetry and the Stalinist camp system, in London’s Bloomsbury Square.
- At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane tells the old Swiss story of Charlemagne and the snake.
- Roads and Kingdoms reports on the last days of bullfighting in Tijuana.
- Mark Simpson considers the state of masculinity in the modern United Kingdom, and calls for some tartiness.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel considers how the Bullet Cluster of galaxies helps prove the existence of dark matter.
- Understanding Society considers political power in China at the level of the village.
- Window on Eurasia considers a variety of negative demographic trends for ethnic Russians in Russia, including low fertility and emigration.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 10, 2017 at 2:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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