[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Centauri Dreams considers the recent study of near-Earth asteroid 1999 KW4, looking at it from the perspective of defending the Earth and building a civilization in space.
- Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber continues a debate on universal basic income.
- The Dragon’s Tales considers if India does need its own military space force.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how foster care in the United States (Canada, too, I’d add) was also synonymous with sending children off as unpaid farm labourers.
- Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a proposal, linking immigration to high-income countries to the idea of immigration as reparation for colonialism.
- The LRB Blog considers the ever-growing presence of the dead on networks like Facebook.
- Muhammad Idrees Ahmad at the NYR Daily looks at how Bellingcat and other online agencies have transformed investigative journalism.
- The Russian Demographics Blog shares a speech by the head of the Bank of Japan talking about the interactions of demographic change and economic growth.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes the mystery behind the great mass of early black hole J1342+0928.
- Strange Company looks at the unsolved Christmas 1928 disappearance of young Melvin Horst from Orrville, Ohio. What happened?
- Window on Eurasia notes that Uzbekistan is moving the Latin script for Uzbek into closer conformity with its Turkish model.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 10, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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