[BLOG] Some Monday links
- ‘Nathan Burgoine at Apostrophen links to a giveaway of paranormal LGBT fiction.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares some stunning photos of Jupiter provided by Juno.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly looks at the desperate, multi-state strike of teachers in the United States. American education deserves to have its needs, and its practitioners’ needs, met.
- Centauri Dreams looks at PROCSIMA, a strategy for improving beamed propulsion techniques.
- Crooked Timber looks at the history of the concept of the uncanny valley. How did the concept get translated in the 1970s from Japan to the wider world?
- Dangerous Minds shares a 1980s BBC interview with William Burroughs.
- The Dragon’s Tales links to a paper tracing the origin of the Dravidian language family to a point in time 4500 years ago.
- JSTOR Daily notes Phyllis Wheatley, a freed slave who became the first African-American author in the 18th century but who died in poverty.
- Language Hat notes the exceptional importance of the Persian language in early modern South Asia.
- Language Log looks at the forms used by Chinese to express the concepts of NIMBY and NIMBYism.
- Language Hat notes the exceptional importance of the Persian language in early modern South Asia.
- The NYR Daily notes that, if the United States junks the nuclear deal with Iran, nothing external to Iran could realistically prevent the country’s nuclearization.
- The Planetary Society Blog looks at the latest findings from the Jupiter system, from that planet’s planet-sized moons.
- Roads and Kingdoms notes that many Rohingya, driven from their homeland, have been forced to work as mules in the illegal drug trade.
- Starts With A Bang considers how early, based on elemental abundances, life could have arisen after the Big Bang. A date only 1 to 1.5 billion years after the formation of the universe is surprisingly early.
- Strange Maps’ Frank Jacobs notes how the centre of population of different tree populations in the United States has been shifting west as the climate has changed.
- Understanding Society’s Daniel Little takes a look at mechanisms and causal explanations.
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative’s Frances Woolley takes a look at an ECON 1000 test from the 1950s. What biases, what gaps in knowledge, are revealed by it?
Written by Randy McDonald
April 9, 2018 at 5:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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