[BLOG] Some Friday links
- Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait notes new research on where the sun is located within the Milky Way Galaxy.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly considers the value of slow fashion.
- Centauri Dreams notes the different gas giants that our early methods have yet to pick up.
- Crooked Timber shares a lovely photo looking back at Venice from across its lagoon.
- D-Brief notes that upcoming space telescopes might find hundreds of rogue planets thanks to microlensing.
- io9 notes that Marvel will soon be producing Warhammer40K comics.
- The Island Review shares some poetry and photography by Ken Cockburn inspired by the Isle of Jura.
- JSTOR Daily notes that different humpback whale groups have different songs, different cultures.
- Language Hat tries to find the meaning of the odd Soviet Yiddish word “kolvirt”.
- Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the history of Elizabeth Warren as a law teacher.
- Map Room Blog shares information from Google Maps about its use of data.
- Marginal Revolution notes that in 2016, not a single child born in the United Kingdom was given the name Nigel.
- Peter Watts talks about AI and what else he is doing.
- The NYR Daily marked the centennial of a horrible massacre of African-Americans centered on the Arkansas community of Elaine.
- Emily Margolis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at how the Apollo moon missions helped galvanize tourism in Florida.
- Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money looks at the constitutional crisis in Peru.
- Drew Rowsome takes a look at A Streetcar Named Desire.
- Peter Rukavina looks at a spreadsheet revealing the distribution of PEI public servants.
- Spacing reviews a book imagining how small communities can rebuild themselves in neoliberalism.
- Towleroad shares the criticism of Christine and the Queens of the allegedly opportunistic use of queer culture by Taylor Swift.
- Understanding Society considers, sociologically, the way artifacts work.
- The Volokh Conspiracy argues that the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China should be a day of mourning, on account of the high human toll of the PRC.
- Window on Eurasia suggests the Russian generation of the 1970s was too small to create lasting change.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at how underwear ads can be quite sexualized.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 11, 2019 at 10:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Urban Note
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