[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- D-Brief notes that CRISPR is being used to edit the genes of pigs, the better to protect them against disease.
- L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing argues that silence on social networks is often not an option, that membership might compel one to speak. I wonder: That was not my experience with E-mail lists.
- Joe. My. God. notes that social network Gab, favoured by the alt-right, disclaims any responsibility for giving the synagogue shooter in Pittsburgh a platform.
- JSTOR Daily notes the massive, unprecedented, and environmentally disruptive growth of great mats of sargassum seaweed in the Caribbean.
- Language Hat notes the poster’s problems grappling with Dosteyevsky’s complex novel The Devils, a messy novel product of messy times.
- Language Log notes the use of pinyin on Wikipedia to annotate Chinese words.
- Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting that data mining is not all-powerful if one is only mining noise.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes that, finally, we are making enough antimatter to be able to figure out whether antimatter is governed by gravity or antigravity.
- At the Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin talks about how he was threatened on Facebook by mail bomber Cesar Sayoc.
- Window on Eurasia notes the 1947 deportation of more than a hundred thousand Ukrainians from the west of their country to Siberia and Kazakhstan.
- Arnold Zwicky ruminates about late October holidays and their food, Hallowe’en not being the only one.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 28, 2018 at 4:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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