Archive for January 2020
[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Bad Astronomer considers the boundaries of decades, of the 2010s and the 2020s, here.
- Jamie Bradburn takes a look at the transition between 1919 and 1920, here.
- Bruce Dorminey makes five astrobiology predictions for 2020, here.
- Dangerous Minds shares the “cataclysmic” artwork of Hungarian painter Gábor Urbán, here.
- Myron Strong writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the great potential of Afrofuturism, here.
- Far Outliers shares some fanciful names for a baseball league in Shikoku, here.
- Gizmodo asks an interesting question: Why is there no male birth control yet?
- In A State of Migration’s Lyman Stone tells how he and his family circumnavigated Taiwan in the space of a long weekend, here.
- io9 notes how Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis is putting up decades of art for auction, here.
- JSTOR Daily looks how the dissolution of the monasteries led to the invention of the archive, to preserve vulnerable perishable documents, here.
- Language Hat is skeptical of the idea that different language families are subtly different in their concepts of (for instance) emotions.
- Language Log looks at an unusual restaurant sign in New York City’s Chinatown, here.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the catastrophe of the fires of Australia, here.
- The LRB Blog writes about the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, an ancient factory in London that might yet find new life, here.
- Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen is still relatively optimistic about Modi, based in part on his assessment of the net failures of his predecessors, here.
- Sean Marshall takes issue with the GO Transit fares on the Highway 407 corridor, here.
- Roberta Brandes Gratz argues at the NYR Daily that upzoning is undermining the human-scale urban fabric of New York City, here.
- Personal Reflection’s Jim Belshaw reports on how, in a time of drought and fire in Australia, he keeps his garden going. Cultiver notre jardin, indeed.
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer looks at who voted where for Macri in Argentina, here.
- The Russian Demographics Blog looks at the changing lists over time of the most populous countries in the world, here.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains why quantum entanglement cannot be used for faster-than-light communications.
- Strange Company takes a look at how, in 1920, Harry Houdini detected an unusual fraud of a spirit lover.
- Transit Toronto shares a video taken this Christmas at the Halton County Radial Railway, here
- Understanding Society looks at studies of cases of non-action in the face of crisis.
- John Scalzi at Whatever celebrates the 15th anniversary of his famous novel Old Man’s War, here.
- Window on Eurasia notes that, in the 2020s, Russia is set to fall economically further behind its peers and neighbours.
- Arnold Zwicky reports again on the electronic music of Swiss André Zwicky, part of his regular tracing down different Zwickys.
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