[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Bad Astronomy shares Hubble images of asteroid 6478 Gault, seemingly in the process of dissolving.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly writes about the experience of living in a body one knows from hard experience to be fallible.
- Gizmodo notes new evidence that environmental stresses pushed at least some Neanderthals to engage in cannibalism.
- Hornet Stories notes the 1967 raid by Los Angeles police against the Black Cat nightclub, a pre-Stonewall trigger of LGBTQ organization.
- Imageo notes the imperfect deal wrought by Colorado Basin states to minimize the pain felt by drought in that river basin.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the cinema of Claire Denis.
- Language Log reports on the work of linguist Ghil’ad Zuckermann, a man involved in language revival efforts in Australia after work in Israel with Hebrew.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders if the Iran-Contra scandal will be a precedent for the Mueller report, with the allegations being buried by studied inattention.
- Marginal Revolution makes a case for NIMBYism leading to street urination.
- Justin Petrone at North! looks at a theatrical performance of a modern Estonian literary classic, and what it says about gender and national identity.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw makes the case for a treaty with Australian Aborigines, to try to settle settler-indigenous relations in Australia.
- John Quiggin looks at the factors leading to the extinction of coal as an energy source in the United Kingdom.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes that we are not yet up to the point of being able to detect exomoons of Earth-like planets comparable to our Moon.
- Window on Eurasia notes the occasion of the last singer in the Ket language.
- Arnold Zwicky shares some cartoon humour, around thought balloons.
Written by Randy McDonald
April 1, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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