[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Bad Astronomer notes the latest news on interstellar comet 2/Borisov.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly emphasizes how every writer does need an editor.
- Centauri Dreams notes how the gas giant GJ 3512 b, half the mass of Jupiter orbiting a red dwarf star closely, is an oddly massive exoplanet.
- Gina Schouten at Crooked Timber looks at inter-generational clashes on parenting styles.
- D-Brief looks at the methods of agriculture that could conceivably sustain a populous human colony on Mars.
- Bruce Dorminey argues that we on Earth need something like Starfleet Academy, to help us advance into space.
- Colby King at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how the socio-spatial perspective helps us understand the development of cities.
- Russell Arben Fox at In Media Res listens to the Paul McCartney album Flaming Pie.
- io9 looks at Proxima, a contemporary spaceflight film starring Eva Green.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how the intense relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia began in, and reflected, the era of Jim Crow.
- Language Hat notes a report suggesting that multilingualism helps ward off dementia.
- Language Log takes issue with the names of the mascots of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the emergence of a ninth woman complaining about being harassed by Al Franken.
- Marginal Revolution links to a new paper arguing that the Washington Consensus worked.
- The NYR Daily shares an Aubrey Nolan cartoon illustrating the evacuation of war children in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
- At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane shares a nice collection of links for digital mapmakers.
- The Planetary Society Blog looks at how the European Space Agency supports the cause of planetary defense.
- Roads and Kingdoms interviews Kenyan writer Kevin Mwachiro at length.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel reports on how a mysterious fast radio burst helped illuminate an equally mysterious galactic halo.
- Strange Company reports on the mysterious and unsolved death in 1936 of Canadian student Thomas Moss in an Oxfordshire hayrick.
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes how Mount Etna is a surpassingly rare decipoint.
- Understanding Society considers the thought of Kojève, after Hegel, on freedom.
- Window on Eurasia looks at the falling numbers of Russians, and of state support for Russian language and culture, in independent Central Asia.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at how individual consumer responses are much less effective than concerted collective action in triggering change.
- Arnold Zwicky reports on some transgender fashion models.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 1, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Urban Note
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