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[META] Hundreds upon hundreds of links, part 3

I know for a fact there are only dozens of links here. Still, I want to work the title.

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Humanizing Fieldwork

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-very-dense-oasis-in-the-brown-dwarf-desert
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/astronomers-are-watching-a-star-die-in-real-time
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/where-do-the-big-moons-of-big-kuiper-belt-objects-come-from

https://broadsideblog.wordpress.com/2019/08/04/learning-to-say-no/

Right, Absolutely Not.

Meet Homo naledi: The Mysterious Human Cousin

The Crab Nebula Just Sent Earth the Highest-energy Photons Ever Recorded

Ancient Mars Tsunami Raises Questions About a Surprisingly Wet World

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2019/07/29/searches-for-alien-technosignatures-remain-hamstrung-by-a-lack-of-federal-funding-says-paper/

http://thedragonstales.blogspot.com/2019/08/nasa-sole-sources-gateway-habitation.html

https://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2019/07/social-isolation-living-alone-and-aging.html

http://faroutliers.blogspot.com/2019/08/wordcatcher-tales-from-kyoto.html

10 billion tons of meltwater poured off Greenland in a day — but are things as bad as the Twittersphere says?

The Invention of Journalistic Objectivity

China’s New Silk Road

Speaking for Rural America, 100 Years Ago

How Janet Flanner’s “High-Class Gossip” Changed America

Spiritually Japanese

Amy Wax’s Mexican problem

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/august/in-trinidad
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2019/july/feelings-of-inertia-and-dread

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/08/open-borders-in-svalbard.html
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/08/highly-decentralized-solar-geoengineering.html

Toni Morrison in the Review

America Is Not Rome. It Just Thinks It Is

Worlds Apart: Sci-Fi Visions of Altered Reality

Casablanca’s Gift to Marrakech and the Birth of Morocco’s Modern Art Movement

An Iranian Dissident’s Tale

The Utopian Promise of Adorno’s ‘Open Thinking,’ Fifty Years On

http://russiandemographix.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-russians-are-coming.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/07/25/general-relativity-rules-einstein-victorious-in-unprecedented-gravitational-redshift-test/

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2019/longjiang-2-impacts-moon.html

https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/europes-refugees

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/08/05/if-cosmology-is-in-crisis-then-these-are-the-19-most-important-galaxies-in-the-universe/

https://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2019/07/soviet-nuclear-disasters-kyshtym.html

http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/07/520-parishes-of-moscow-church-have-now.html

Round and Round the OODA Loop: Folk Boyd and the Brexiters

Legally contested liverwurst

https://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/weblog/2019/07/26-metrolinx_.shtml
Ontario government looks to sell naming rights for 5 GO Transit stations
YYZ Why? Dozens of historic architectural features, sculptures at Guild Park and Gardens
https://www.blogto.com/city/2019/07/toronto-overcrowding-dufferin-bus/
https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2019/07/toronto-church-condo-development/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-long-weekend-gun-violence-1.5237108?cmp=rss

I threw my grandmother an assisted suicide party

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/aging-gayfully-working-to-shatter-lgbtq-taboos-in-quebec-retirement-homes-1.5236794?cmp=rss

https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/07/amsterdam-travel-tourism-red-light-safety-sex-workers-laws/593524/?utm_source=feed
$50K reward offered as family seeks ‘a piece of closure’ in 25-year-old cold case
https://nowtoronto.com/news/parliament-hill-indigenous-remains/
Steeltown or Hatetown? Hamilton tops country in hate crime reports
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/regional/201908/03/01-5236171-saint-hyacinthe-une-ville-a-la-rescousse-de-ses-joyaux.php
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/29/london-property-crisis-canal-narrowboat-gentrification
Kingston’s Princess Street Promenade draws thousands
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/aug/05/suburb-in-the-sky-how-jakartans-built-an-entire-village-on-top-of-a-mall
Mexican government says El Paso shooting an ‘act of terrorism’ against Mexicans
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/toronto-montreal-high-frequency-rail-line-more-effective-without-quebec-city-memo-1.4527012
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-flooding-demolition-saint-marie-1.5236763?cmp=rss

The long history of ‘go back to where you came from’ in Canada


https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/its-not-about-reaching-europe-but-fleeing-libya-accounts-from-a-mediterranean-rescue-ship/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/the-left-will-be-international-or-it-wont-be-at-all-lesson-from-greece/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/great-lakes-water-problems-1.5230158?cmp=rss
https://www.wired.com/story/communist-housing-blocks-gallery/
https://nowtoronto.com/news/canada-cannabis-legalization-dispensaries-canntrust/

Snowball Exoplanets Might Be Better for Life Than We Thought

Written by Randy McDonald

August 6, 2019 at 9:30 pm

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