[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at planetary nebulas, beautiful byproducts of the ends of stars.
- Centauri Dreams shares an essay by Mark Millis looking at how NASA evaluates proposed new propulsion methods.
- Bruce Dorminey takes a look at some interesting facts about the development of the Boeing 747.
- L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the ways in which deepfakes, allowing for alternate personalities online, evoke the Bunburying of Oscar Wilde.
- Gizmodo notes that neutron star collisions might well reveal mysterious quark matter, if only they occurred within sight of us.
- JSTOR Daily considers the sensuous nature of the Jane Austen novel Persuasion.
- Language Log considers a potential case for Sinitic origins in the Balto-Slavic word for “iron”.
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the weakness of the centre as a major pull for American voters.
- Marginal Revolution links to a paper concluding that Chinese workers are not being exploited by the manufacturing companies that may employ them.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel considers how the curvature of space-time under gravity can be measured.
- Window on Eurasia considers two Kazakhstan observers who argue the country should switch from Kazakh-Russian bilingualism to Kazakh-English bilingualism.
- Arnold Zwicky considers, after the Gay & Lesbian Review, the representation of different communities in the LGBT+ acronym, the utility of simple symbols, like “&” or “+”.
Written by Randy McDonald
February 16, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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