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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- D-Brief notes that, with the Dawn probe unresponsive, its mission to Vesta and Ceres is now over.
- The Dragon’s Tales reports that NASA is seeking commercial partners to deliver cargo to the proposed Gateway station.
- JSTOR Daily looks back to a time where chestnuts were a staple food in Appalachia.
- Language Log takes a look at prehistoric words in Eurasia for honey, in Indo-European and Old Sinitic.
- Joy Katz at the LRB Blog writes about her lived experience of the conventional Pittsburgh neighbourhood of Squirrel Hill, a perhaps unlikely scene of tragedy.
- The Map Room Blog links to an interactive map showing the Québec election results.
- Marginal Revolution links to that New York Magazine article about young people who do not vote to start a discussion.
- Roads and Kingdoms looks at the real dangers faced by Venezuelan refugees in the northern Brazilian state of Roraima, at the start of the era of Bolsonaro.
- Window on Eurasia argues that changes to the Russian census allowing people to identify with multiple ethnicities could lead to a sharp shrinking in the numbers of minority nationalities.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 2, 2018 at 12:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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