[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the many galaxies in the night sky caught mid-collision.
- Centauri Dreams reports on the plan of China to send a probe to explore near-Earth co-orbital asteroid 2016 HO3 and comet 133P.
- Gizmodo reports, with photos, on the progress of the Chang’e 4 and the Yutu 2 rover, on the far side of the Moon.
- Joe. My. God. notes that Bill de Blasio hopes to ban new steel-and-glass skyscrapers in New York City, part of his plan to make the metropolis carbon-neutral.
- JSTOR Daily notes a critique of the BBC documentary Planet Earth, arguing the series was less concerned with representing the environment and more with displaying HD television technology.
- Language Hat notes the oddities of the name of St. Marx Cemetery in Vienna. How did “Mark” get so amusingly changed?
- Language Log looks at how terms for horse-riding might be shared among Indo-European languages and in ancient Chinese.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the grounds for the workers of New York’s Tenement Museum to unionize.
- The NYR Daily notes the efforts of Barnard College Ancient Drama, at Columbia University, to revive Greek drama in its full with music and dance, starting with a Euripedes performance.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel shares some iconic images of the Earth from space for Earth Day.
Written by Randy McDonald
April 23, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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