[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- The Buzz, over at the Toronto Public Library, recommends some audiobooks, here.
- Centauri Dreams features an essay, by Kostas Konstantindis, exploring how near-future technology could be used to explore the oceans of Europa and Enceladus for life.
- Far Outliers takes a look at the many languages used in Persia circa 500 BCE.
- Hornet Stories notes that Fox News has retracted a bizarrely homophobic op-ed on the Olympics by one of its executives.
- JSTOR Daily explores what is really involved in the rumours of J. Edgar Hoover and cross-dressing.
- Language Hat, in exploring Zadie Smith, happens upon the lovely word “cernuous”.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money links to an article, and starts a discussion, regarding the possibility of a North Korean victory early in the Korean War. What would have happened next?
- The NYR Daily notes that Donald Trump is helping golf get a horrible reputation.
- Supernova Condensate examines the science-fiction trope of artificial intelligence being dangerous, and does not find much substance behind the myth. If anything, the direction of the fear should lie in the other direction.
- Understanding Society’s Daniel Little looks at two books which consider the origins of the Cold War from an international relations perspective. What were the actors trying to achieve?
- Window on Eurasia makes the argument that the powerful clan structures of post-Soviet Dagestan are not primordial in origin, but rather represent attempts to cope with state failure in that Russian republic.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the existential problems facing Capita from a Coasian perspective. How is its business model fundamentally broken?
- Arnold Zwicky, in taking apart an overcorrection, explains the differences between “prone” and “supine.”
Written by Randy McDonald
February 11, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
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