[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the evidence for the massive collision that left exoplanet Kepler 107c an astoundingly dense body.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly tells her readers the secrets of the success of her relationship with her husband, Jose.
- Centauri Dreams notes what the New Horizons probe has found out, of Ultima Thule and of Pluto, by looking back.
- The Crux shares the obituaries of scientists from NASA for the Opportunity rover.
- D-Brief reports that NASA has declared the Opportunity rover’s mission officially complete.
- Dead Things introduces its readers to Mnyamawamtuka, a titanosaur from Tanzania a hundred million years ago.
- Drew Ex Machina shares a stunning photo of Tropical Cyclone Gita, taken from the ISS in 2018.
- Far Outliers notes how the Indian Army helped save the British army’s positions from collapse in the fall of 1914.
- Joe. My. God. notes a Christian group in the United States trying to encourage a boycott of supposedly leftist candy manufacturers like Hershey’s.
- JSTOR Daily looks at why covenant marriage failed to become popular.
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains the hatred for new Congressperson Ilham Omar.
- The Planetary Society Blog links to ten interesting podcasts relating to exploration, of Earth and of space.
- Drew Rowsome interviews Tobias Herzberg about Feygele, his show in the Rhubarb festival at Buddies in Bad Times.
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at the evidence, presented by (among others) Geneviève von Petzinger, suggesting that forty thousand years ago cave artists around the world may have shared a common language of symbols.
- Window on Eurasia suggests that the policies of Putin are contributing to a growing sense of nationalism in Belarus.
Written by Randy McDonald
February 14, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
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