[BLOG] Some Friday links
- Centauri Dreams notes the astounding precision of the new Habitable Planet Finder telescope.
- D-Brief notes that the lack of small craters on Pluto and Charon suggests there are not many small bodies in the Kuiper Belt.
- Far Outliers notes the many and widely varying transliterations of Bengali to English.
- JSTOR Daily notes the extent to which border walls represent, ultimately, a failure of politics.
- Language Log examines the emergence of the Germanic languages in the depths of prehistory.
- Anna Aslanyan at the LRB Blog considers the eternal search for a universal language.
- Noah Smith shareshis Alternative Green New Deal Plan at his blog, one that depends more on technology and market forces than the original.
- Mitchell Abidor at the NYR Daily writes about the incisive leftism of journalist Victor Sorge.
- Out There notes the reality that the worlds of our solar system, and almost certainly other systems, are united by a constant stream of incoming rocks.
- At the Planetary Society Blog, Emily Lakdawalla examines the data transmitted back by OSIRIS-REx from that probe’s Earth flyby.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel examines cosmic conditions at the time the solar system formed 4.56 billion or so years ago.
- Towleroad notes the censorship of many explicitly gay scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody in its Chinese release.
- Window on Eurasia looks at the many ways in which the social norms of North Caucasian men are converging with those of the average Russian.
- On St. David’s Day, Arnold Zwicky pays tribute to the daffodil and to the Welsh.
Written by Randy McDonald
March 1, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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