[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- The Big Picture shares adorable photos of baby animals.
- Multi-planet system K2-138 is one of the systems found via crowdsourcing, Centauri Dreams notes.
- I did not know that David Bowie and Brian Eno visited the Gugging mental health clinic in Austria in 1994. Dangerous Minds has the photos.
- Hornet Stories notes that Mike Pence has tried to defend himself from Adam Rippon’s criticisms by lying about his past.
- Information is Beautiful shares an infographic depicting the edit wars last year on Wikipedia.
- Joe. My. God. notes that Northern Ireland may get a referendum on marriage equality, giving it a chance to catch up to the Republic of Ireland and to the rest of the United Kingdom.
- JSTOR Daily links to a vintage article noting that trying to apply the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which could unseat a sitting president if the president was disabled, could cause a constitutional crisis.
- Language Hat notes a study suggesting that, as humans become more sedentary, linguistic evidence suggests smell becomes less important.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders: how many films, how many novels, have been about _women_, not men, who are difficult geniuses? Where is the female equivalent of House?
- The NYR Daily examines the Afro-futurism of 20th century novelist George Schuyler and his Black No More.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel considers what someone would see as they descended into a black hole.
- At Towleroad, Steven Petrow tells how HIV/AIDS doctor Mathilde Krim saved his life.
- Window on Eurasia notes one, militant, response in the Donbas republics to the breakdown of the Minsk Accords with Ukraine.
Written by Randy McDonald
January 20, 2018 at 6:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Photo, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
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