[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog offers some advice as to how to cope with rejection.
- Centauri Dreams shares Robert Zubrin’s take on the Drake Equation, and on ways it is lacking and could be improved.
- Crooked Timber looks at a book examining (among other things) the interactions of libertarian economists with racism and racist polities.
- D-Brief notes a study suggesting that, actually, people would react positively and with a minimum of panic to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
- Dangerous Minds takes a look at Chandra Oppenheim, an artist who at the age of 12 in 1980 released an amazing post-punk album.
- Gizmodo responds to the news that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are roughly the same mass.
- JSTOR Daily reports on the effects of the dingo fence in Australia on native wildlife there.
- Language Hat notes a new statistical analysis of literature that has found one of the sources of Shakespeare’s language.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how Trump’s many affairs make him eminently blackmailable.
- The LRB Blog reports on why academic workers in the United Kingdom are getting ready to strike on behalf of their pension rights, starting next week.
- Marginal Revolution notes the sharp ongoing decline in the population of Bulgaria, and wonders what can be done. What need be done, in fact, if Bulgarians as individuals are happy?
- Anastasia Edel writes about the Russian-American community, and what it is like being Russian-American in the era of Trump, over at the NYR Daily.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes that there seems to be no periodicity in extinction events, that there is no evidence of a cycle.
Written by Randy McDonald
February 17, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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