[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Charlie Stross hosts at Antipope another discussion thread examining Brexit.
- Architectuul takes a look at five overlooked mid-20th century architects.
- Bad Astronomy shares a satellite photo of auroras at night over the city lights of the Great Lakes basin and something else, too.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly writes about the directions love has taken her, and wonders where it might have taken her readers.
- Centauri Dreams reports on the Hayabusa 2 impactor on asteroid Ryugu.
- John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with the claims of Steven Pinker about nuclear power.
- D-Brief notes the detection, in remarkable detail, of a brilliant exocomet at Beta Pictoris.
- The Dragon’s Tales considers the possibility that China might be building a military base in Cambodia.
- Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the importance of small social cues, easily overlookable tough they are.
- Far Outliers notes the role of Japan’s imperial couple, Akihito and Michiko, in post-war Japan.
- L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing writes about the potential inadequacy of talking about values.
- Gizmodo notes a new study suggesting the surprising and potentially dangerous diversity of bacteria present on the International Space Station.
- Mark Graham shares a link to a paper, and its abstract, examining what might come of the creation of a planetary labour market through the gig economy.
- Hornet Stories takes a look at Red Ribbon Blues, a 1995 AIDS-themed film starring RuPaul.
- io9 notes that Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke are co-writing a Pan’s Labyrinth novel scheduled for release later this year.
- Joe. My. God. notes a new study suggesting 20% of LGBTQ Americans live in rural areas.
- JSTOR Daily takes a look at the Bluestockings, the grouping of 18th century women in England who were noteworthy scholars and writers.
- Language Hat notes an ambitious new historical dictionary of the Arabic language being created by the emirate of Sharjah.
- Language Log examines, in the aftermath of a discussion of trolls, different cultures’ terms for different sorts of arguments.
- Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how early forestry in the United States was inspired by socialist ideals.
- The Map Room Blog links to a map showing the different national parks of the United Kingdom.
- Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution, noting the new findings from the Chixculub impact, notes how monitoring asteroids to prevent like catastrophes in the future has to be a high priority.
- The New APPS Blog explains how data, by its very nature, is so easily made into a commodity.
- The NYR Daily considers the future of the humanities in a world where higher education is becoming preoccupied by STEM.
- Corey S. Powell at Out There interviews Bear Grylls about the making of his new documentary series Hostile Planet.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw considers the pleasures of birds and of birdwatching.
- Jason C. Davis at the Planetary Society Blog noted the arrival of the Beresheet probe in lunar orbit.
- Drew Rowsome reviews the new amazing-sounding play Angelique at the Factory Theatre.
- The Russian Demographics Blog notes a paper that makes the point of there being no automatic relationship between greater gender equality and increases in fertility.
- The Signal looks at how the Library of Congress has made use of the BagIt programming language in its archiving of data.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel comes up with questions to ask plausible visitors from other universes.
- Strange Company notes the mysterious deaths visited on three members of a British family in the early 20th century. Who was the murderer? Was there even a crime?
- Towleroad notes the activists, including Canadian-born playwright Jordan Tannahill, who disrupted a high tea at the Dorchester Hotel in London over the homophobic law passed by its owner, the Sultan of Brunei.
- Window on Eurasia notes rising instability in Ingushetia.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes that the British surveillance of Huawei is revealing the sorts of problems that must be present in scrutiny-less Facebook, too.
Written by Randy McDonald
April 9, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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