[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- Architectuul reports on its Forgotten Masterpieces campaign, aiming to promote overlooked and endangered works of 20th century architecture.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on how the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy has just now been calculated at 1.54 trillion solar masses.
- blogTO reports that three thousand students at the University of Toronto apparently fund their education through sugar daddies.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly writes about how she found a new tribe at a journalism conference.
- Centauri Dreams notes that black hole starship engines count as a detectable technosignature for SETI searches.
- John Holbo at Crooked Timber considers the emotionalism of Peterson and Shapiro versus facts in the light of Plato.
- The Crux notes how, before settling the Moon, we have to first develop the techniques necessary for mining the Moon.
- D-Brief notes the threats posed by humanity to the ecosystems of Antarctica.
- Bruce Dorminey notes a proposal before NASA to dispatch a smallsat probe to asteroid Pallas.
- Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the first test flights, in the 1960s, of the reusable space plane the X-15.
- Far Outliers looks at the separation of Muslims from Hindus in Calcutta, and the subordination of the former to the latter.
- Gizmodo reports on an exciting new display of the Tyrannosaurus Rex at the American Museum of Natural History that features, finally, feathers.
- Keiran Healy crunches the numbers to notes how the hierarchy of academic institutions in the United States has scarcely changed over the previous century.
- Joe. My. God. notes that the 1971 marriage in Minnesota of Michael McConnell and Jack Baker has been officially recognized.
- JSTOR Daily takes a look at the overlooked radical politics of Frida Kahlo.
- Language Hat looks at the mysterious choice in names for the pre-Columbian Adena culture of North America. Why “Adena”?
- At Language Log, Victor Mair shares a post by a Chinese father who calls for a liberation of Chinese languages from their traditional script.
- Steve Attewell writes at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the history of the Marvel Universe’s Hellfire Club, memorably created by Chris Claremont.
- Marginal Revolution shares a paper supporting the thesis of Jared Diamond about the importance of the axes of continents in explaining biological and cultural diffusion.
- The New APPS Blog reports on the complicated trajectory from Marx to Foucault.
- Rachel Aspden writes at the NYR Daily about the political economy of safari tours.
- Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog notes a fiscal year 2020 proposal before NASA for a sample return mission to Mars.
- The Russian Demographics Blog notes that the Global Data Lab has just had a paper published in Nature on their database of subnational entities’ rankings on the Human Development Index.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel argues that the new Trump budget for FY2020 would cause terrible damage to NASA.
- Window on Eurasia suggests that the Putin government’s policies are driving more rural-to-urban migration in Russia.
- Frances Woolley writes at Worthwhile Canad8ian Initiative about the relationship, under the Ford government of Ontario, of age limits for professors with tenure.
- Arnold Zwicky considers the lovely clematis.
Written by Randy McDonald
March 14, 2019 at 4:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
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