[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Kambiz at Anthropology.net notes evidence that Neanderthals in Italy used fire to shape digging sticks 170 thousand years ago.
- Missing persons blog Charley Ross reminds online commentators to be careful and reasonable in their speculations online, if only because these last forever.
- D-Brief notes a new study of the TRAPPIST-1 system suggesting that its outermost planets, in the circumstellar habitable zone, are so low density that they must have abundant volatiles. Water is the most likely candidate.
- Hornet Stories introduces readers to the impressive photography of New York City’s Peter Hujar.
- At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox meditates on the issues of friendship in the contemporary world.
- Joe. My. God. shares representative Tammy Duckworth’s mockery of the authoritarian Donald Trump, aka “Cadet Bone Spurs”.
- JSTOR Daily notes the continuing importance of the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
- The Map Room Blog notes that someone has made cute maps of seven solar system worlds for children.
- Marginal Revolution links to an article looking at how some of the schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria by Boko Haram are doing.
- The NYR Daily engages with “Soul of a Nation”, a touring exhibit of African-American art in the era of Black Power.
- The Planetary Society Blog reports from the scene of the impending Falcon Heavy launch, sharing photos.
- Towleroad notes a South African church that not only beats its queer parishoners but fines them, too.
- Window on Eurasia suggests</u. Western sanctions could hinder the Russian development of its Arctic presence.
Written by Randy McDonald
February 6, 2018 at 2:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
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