[BLOG] Some Friday links
- The Buzz celebrates Esi Edugyan’s winning of the Giller Prize for the second time, for her amazing novel Washington Black.
- Centauri Dreams notes the unusual rings of outer-system body Chariklo.
- The Crux looks at the long history of unsuccessful planet-hunting at Barnard’s Star, concentrating on the disproved mid-20th century work of Peter Van De Kamp.
- D-Brief notes evidence that Mars knew catastrophic floods that radically reshaped its surface.
- Bruce Dorminey visits and explores Korea’s ancient Cheomseongdae Observatory.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the death of long-time contributor Peter Kaufman.
- L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the things–quiet, even–that modernity can undermine before transforming into a commodity.
- Imageo notes that global warming has continued this American Thanksgiving.
- Joe. My. God. notes the sour grapes of the Family Research Council at the success of the moving film about “gay conversion therapy”, Boy Erased.
- JSTOR Daily links to a paper considering if the zeitgeist of the world is into major monuments.
- Language Log considers a news report of “arsehole” geese in Australia. As a Canadian, all I can say is that geese are birds that know they are dinosaurs.
- The LRB Blog reports from the scene of the recent unrecognized elections in the city of Donetsk, run by a pro-Russian regime.
- The Map Room Blog reports on how Atlas Obscura is exhibiting some amazing maps produced in Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.
- Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting how black teachers can help boost achievements among black students.
- The New APPS Blog looks at how the political economy of our time combines with social media to atomize and fragment society.
- Nicholas Lezard at the NYR Daily talks about his experience of anti-Semitism, as a non-Jew, in the United Kingdom.
- Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog suggests families would do better to talk about space at Thanksgiving than about politics, and shares a list of subjects.
- Drew Rowsome talks about the frustrations and the entertainment involved with Bohemian Rhapsody.
- Window on Eurasia notes that fifty thousand ethnic Kyrgyz are being held in the Xinjiang camps of China.
- Arnold Zwicky shares some Thanksgiving holiday cartoons by Roz Chast.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 23, 2018 at 4:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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