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[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- Architectuul visits the studio of Barbas Lopes Arquitectos in Lisbon, here.
- Bad Astronomer takes a look at a new paper examining the effectiveness of different asteroid detection technologies, including nuclear weapons.
- Centauri Dreams reports on a new study suggesting potentially habitable planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B, smaller of the two stars, could suffer from rapid shifts of their axes.
- John Quiggin at Crooked Timber argues some polls suggest some American conservatives really would prefer Russia as a model to California.
- Bruce Dorminey notes the discovery, by the Murchison Widefield Array in Australia, of 27 supernova remnants in our galaxy.
- The Dragon’s Tales shares a collection of links about stealth aircraft, here.
- Gizmodo notes a new study suggesting that DNA is but one of very very many potential genetic molecules.
- Language Hat shares a reevaluation of the Richard Stanyhurst translation of the Aeneid, with its manufactured words. Why mightn’t this have been not mockable but rather creative?
- Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrated the 50th anniversary of the takeover of Alcatraz Island by Native American activists.
- Chris Bertram writes at the LRB Blog, after the catastrophe of the Essex van filled with dozens of dead migrants, about the architecture of exclusion that keeps out migrants.
- Marginal Revolution shares a comment looking at the fentanyl crisis from a new angle.
- Jenny Uglow writes at the NYR Daily about a Science Museum exhibit highlighting the dynamic joys of science and its progress over the centuries.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw takes a look at the question of how to prevent the wildfires currently raging in Australia. What could have been done, what should be done?
- The Planetary Society Blog reports on proposals from China for two long-range probe missions to interstellar space, including a Neptune flyby.
- Drew Rowsome reviews the wonderfully innocent Pinocchio currently playing at the Young People’s Theatre.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at the evidence for the universe, maybe, being closed.
- Window on Eurasia notes that the Alexandria Patriarchate is the next Orthodox body to recognize the Ukrainian church.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at irregular versus regular, as a queer word too.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 24, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
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