[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- Centauri Dreams notes the remarkable imaging of the atmosphere of HR 8799 e.
- Crooked Timber starts a discussion about books that, once picked up, turned out to be as good as promised.
- The Crux considers obsidian, known in the Game of Thrones world as dragonglass.
- Bruce Dorminey notes that NASA is considering a proposal for a floating Venus probe that would be recharged by microwaves from orbit.</li.
- The Dragon’s Tales shares a report that Russia has developed a new satellite to work with a new anti-satellite weapons system.
- Far Outliers notes what U.S. Grant learned from the Mexican-American War, as a strategist and as a politician.
- L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing suggests, drawing from the image of M87*, that we have had a world disenchanted by the digital technology used to produce the image.
- JSTOR Daily shares what critical theory has to say about the binge-watching of television.
- Language Hat notes the Cherokee-language inscriptions on the wall of Manitou Cave.
- Language Log considers when the first conversing automaton was built.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money takes a look at a corner of 1970s feminism forgotten despite its innovative ideas.
- Marginal Revolution considers the idea of restricting some new migrants to particular regions of the United States.
- The NYR Daily explores the important new work by Igiaba Scego, Beyond Babylon.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel answers a surprisingly complex question: What is an electron?
- Window on Eurasia explains why the cost of a professional military means Russia will not abandon the draft.
- Arnold Zwicky explores “johnson” as a euphemism for penis.
Written by Randy McDonald
April 14, 2019 at 3:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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