[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Bad Astronomy shares a photo taken by the H-ATLAS satellite of deep space, a sea of pale dusty dots each one a galaxy.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly shares, in photos and in prose, 11 views of New York City. (What a fantastic metropolis!)
- Centauri Dreams hosts an essay from Alex Tolley suggesting that most life in the universe is lithophilic, living in the stable warm interiors of planets.
- Cody Delistraty links to an essay of his looking at the tensions, creative and personal, between Renoir father and son.
- Gizmodo links to a paper suggesting the mysterious ASASSN-14li event can be explained by a star falling into a supermassive galactic black hole, the analysis suggesting the black hole was rotating at half the speed of light.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the mysterious dancing plagues of medieval Europe.
- The LRB Blog looks at casual anti-Semitism in British sports.
- Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that the legacies of Confucian state-building in China may have depressed long-term economic growth in particularly Confucian areas.
- The Planetary Society Blog reports on the success of the Chang’e-4 probe, complete with photos and videos sent from the far side of the Moon.
- Roads to Kingdoms shares the photography of a changing Vietnam by Simone Sapienza.
- Drew Rowsome reviews the ongoing Toronto comedy show Unsafe Space, and enjoys it.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at the achievements of the TESS planet-hunting satellites, looking for nearby planets, emphasizing its achievements in the Pi Mensae system.
- Window on Eurasia considers a fascinating alternate history. Could Beria, had he survived Stalin, have overseen a radical liberalization of the Soviet Union in the early Cold War?
Written by Randy McDonald
January 12, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
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