[BLOG] Some Monday links
- At Apostrophen, author ‘Nathan Smith shares some of his favourite LGBTQ reads from the past year.
- At the Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly asks her readers where their deepest roots lie.
- Missing persons blog Charley Ross celebrates its 11th anniversary.
- At Crooked Timber, Corey Robin takes issue with some attitudes of Democrats post-Alabama, especially regarding African-American voters.
- D-Brief notes that the icy rings of Saturn apparently influence that planet’s ionosphere.
- Imageo shares satellite photos of the Thomas wildfire in California, apparently worsened by climate change.
- JSTOR Daily links to ten beautiful poems of winter.
- Language Hat links to an interesting-looking thesis examining non-Indo-European words in proto-Indo-European.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money takes a look at the underlying cycles leading to the speedy extinction of the passenger pigeon.
- Lingua Franca takes a look at the modern use of the word “even” as a sort of intensifier. Tina Fey’s Mean Girls seems to be the source.
- In the aftermath of the “Oumuamua scan, Marginal Revolution takes a look at the Fermi paradox. Where is everyone?
- Neuroskeptic examines the universe of papers lacking citations, apparently only 10% of the total published.
- Drew Rowsome shares some ideas for last-minute Christmas gifts, some naughty and some nice.
- The blog Savage Minds is dead, long live its successor anthro(dendum)!
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel shows readers ways they can pick up traces of the quantum universe safely at home.
- Towleroad has a queer take on the new Star Wars. (No spoilers, please–I think there are spoilers in the link.)
- Window on Eurasia suggests language issues in Gaugazia, a Turkic enclave in Moldova, might trigger another bout of separatism there.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell has a new take on the cloud of bizarre videos that is #elsagate, introducing readers to the idea of algorithmic kitsch.
Written by Randy McDonald
December 18, 2017 at 12:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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