[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how TESS detected a star being torn apart by a distant black hole.
- Centauri Dreams’ Paul Gilster looks at the past and future of the blog.
- Crooked Timber takes on the sensitive issue of private schools in the United Kingdom.
- The Crux considers the question of why women suffer from Alzheimer’s at a higher frequency than men.
- D-Brief notes a study suggesting that saving the oceans of the Earth could reduce the effects of global warming by 20%.
- Bruce Dorminey considers a paper suggesting that, if not for its volcanic resurfacing, Venus could have remained an Earth-like world to this day.
- The Dragon’s Tale notes that NASA will deploy a cubesat in the proposed orbit of the Lunar Gateway station to make sure it is a workable orbit.
- Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at Soyuz T-10a, the first crewed mission to abort on the launch pad.
- Gizmodo reports on a paper arguing that we should intentionally contaminate Mars (and other bodies?) with our world’s microbes.
- io9 looks at how Warner Brothers is trying to control, belatedly, the discourse around the new Joker movie.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how, in industrializing London, women kidnapped children off the streets.
- Language Hat links to a page examining the Arabic and Islamic elements in Dune.
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at a new documentary examining the life of Trump mentor Roy Cohn.
- The LRB Blog looks at how BBC protocols are preventing full discussion of public racism.
- The Map Room Blog looks at different efforts to reimagining the subway map of New York City.
- Marginal Revolution shares a paper claiming that increased pressure on immigrants to assimilate in Italy had positive results.
- The NYR Daily looks at the background to George Washington’s statements about the rightful place of Jews in the United States.
- Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog looks at the political explanation of the massive increase in the planetary defense budget of NASA.
- Drew Rowsome takes a look at the Rocky Horror Show, with its celebration of sexuality (among other things).
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel considers why there are so many unexpected black holes in the universe.
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps examines why Google Street View is not present in Germany (and Austria).
- The Volokh Conspiracy reports on a ruling in a UK court that lying about a vasectomy negates a partner’s consent to sex.
- Window on Eurasia notes the controversy about some Buryat intellectuals about giving the different dialects of their language too much importance.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 29, 2019 at 5:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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