[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait writes about the ephemeral nature and historically recent formation of the rings of Saturn.
- Centauri Dreams hosts an essay looking at the controversies surrounding the arguments of Avi Loeb around SETI and ‘Oumuamua.
- D-Brief links to a new analysis of hot Jupiters suggesting that they form close to their stars, suggesting further that they are a separate population from outer-system worlds like our Jupiter and Saturn.
- Colby King at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the sociology of the online world, using the critical work of Zeynep Tufekci as a lens.
- L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes a great point about the seemingly transparent online world: We might, like a protagonist in a Hawthorne story, confine ourselves falsely that we know everything, so becoming jaded.
- JSTOR Daily notes how, in the early 20th century, US Park Rangers were actually quite rough and tumble, an irregular police force.
- Language Hat looks at the overlooked modernist fiction of Dorothy Richardson.
- Language Log examines the origins of the phrase “Listen up”.
- The LRB Blog visits a Berlin cemetery to note the annual commemoration there of the lives of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.
- Marginal Revolution considers the proportion of centenarians on Okinawa, and considers if a carbohydrate-heavy diet featuring sweet potatoes is key.</li<
- Tim Parks at the NYR Daily engages with the idea of a translation being an accomplishment of its own.
- Roads and Kingdoms has a fascinating interview with Tanja Fox about the history and development of the Copenhagen enclave of Christiania.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes that early returns from New Horizons suggest Ultima Thule is a typical “future comet”.
- Strange Company shares the story of the haunting of 18th century Gael Donald Bán.
- Towleroad shares the account by Nichelle Nichols of how her chance encounter with Martin Luther King helped save Star Trek.
- Window on Eurasia notes the different quasi-embassies of different Russian republics in Moscow, and their potential import.
- Arnold Zwicky, looking at penguins around the world, notices the CIBC mascot Percy the Penguin.
Written by Randy McDonald
January 22, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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