[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Architectuul reports on the critical walking tours of Istanbul offered by Nazlı Tümerdem.
- Centauri Dreams features a guest post from Alex Tolley considering the biotic potential of the subsurface ocean of Enceladus.
- The Crux reports on how paleontologist Susie Maidment tries to precisely date dinosaur sediments.
- D-Brief notes the success of a recent project aiming to map the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Cody Delistraty considers the relationship between the One Percent and magicians.
- Todd Schoepflin writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about different sociological facts in time for the new school year.
- Gizmodo shares a lovely extended cartoon imagining what life on Europa, and other worlds with subsurface worlds, might look like.
- io9 features an interview with Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders on the intersection between science fiction writing and science writing.
- JSTOR Daily briefly considers the pros and cons of seabed mining.
- Marginal Revolution suggests that a stagnant economy could be seen as a sign of success, as the result of the exploitation of all potential for growth.
- The NYR Daily reports on the photographs of John Edmonds, a photographer specializing in images of queer black men.
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a map of murders in Denmark, and an analysis of the facts behind this crime there.
- Window on Eurasia reports on an anti-Putin shaman in Buryatia.
- Arnold Zwicky reports on dreams of going back to school, NSFW and otherwise.
Written by Randy McDonald
August 31, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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