Posts Tagged ‘dance’
[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Architectuul looks at the winners of an architecture prize based in Piran, here.
- Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait notes the wind emitted from one distant galaxy’s supermassive black hole is intense enough to trigger star formation in other galaxies.
- Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber pays tribute to Jack Merritt, a young victim of the London Bridge attack who was committed to the cause of prisoner rehabilitation.
- Dangerous Minds looks at the history of French pop group Les Rita Mitsouko.
- Bruce Dorminey reports on the European Space Agency’s belief Earth-observing spacecraft are needed to track ocean acidification.
- The Dragon’s Tales reports on the consensus of the Russian scientific community against human genetic engineering.
- Far Outliers reports on the first ambassador sent from the Barbary States to the United States.
- JSTOR Daily reports on the life of pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas.
- Language Log shares images of a bottle of Tibetan water, bought in Hong Kong, labeled in Tibetan script.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money rightly assigns responsibility for the terrible measles outbreak in Samoa to anti-vaxxers.
- The LRB Blog notes how tree planting is not apolitical, might even not be a good thing to do sometimes.
- Marginal Revolution reports on a paper suggesting that food tends to be better in restaurants located on streets in Manhattan, better than in restaurants located on avenues.
- Justin Petrone at north! shares an account of a trip across Estonia.
- The NYR Daily looks at the photography of Michael Jang.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw continues to report from Armidale, in Australia, shrouded in smoke from wildfires.
- The Planetary Society Blog reports on the early days of the Planetary Society, four decades ago.
- The Russian Demographics Blog looks at how centenarians in Sweden and in Denmark experience different trends in longevity.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel reports on the accidental discovery of the microwave background left by the Big Bang in 1964.
- Understanding Society’s Daniel Little looks at the increasingly poor treatment of workers by employers such as Amazon through the lens of primitive accumulation.
- Window on Eurasia looks at the small differences separating the Kazakhs from the Kyrgyz.
- Arnold Zwicky shares a dance routine, shown on television in France, against homophobia.
Written by Randy McDonald
December 2, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with anthropology, architecture, armidale, astronomy, australia, baltic states, black holesbig bang, blogs, central asia, china, clash of ideologies, cosmology, crime, dance, Demographics, denmark, disasters, earth, economics, environment, estonia, foods, former soviet union, france, franz boas, genetics, glbt issues, global warming, health, in memoriam, kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, language, les rita mitsouko, links, london, medicine, national identity, new york, new york city, norden, northa frica, oceans, photography, physics, politics, polynesia, popular music, restaurants, russia, samoa, social sciences, sociology, space science, space travel, sweden, technology, tibet, tibetan language, united kingdom, united states
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Centauri Dreams notes how gas giants on eccentric orbits can easily disrupt bodies on orbits inwards.
- Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber suggests that the political culture of England has been deformed by the trauma experienced by young children of the elites at boarding schools.
- Dangerous Minds looks at the haunting art of Paul Delvaux.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the work of Tressie McMillan Cottom in investigating for-profit higher education.
- Far Outliers looks at Tripoli in 1801.
- Gizmodo shares the Boeing design for the moon lander it proposes for NASA in 2024.
- io9 shares words from cast of Terminator: Dark Fate about the importance of the Mexican-American frontier.
- JSTOR Daily makes a case against killing spiders trapped in one’s home.
- Language Hat notes a recovered 17th century translation of a Dutch bible into the Austronesian language of Siraya, spoken in Taiwan.
- Language Log looks at the origin of the word “brogue”.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the payday lender industry.
- Marginal Revolution notes a new biography of Walter Raleigh, a maker of empire indeed.
- The NYR Daily looks at a new dance show using the rhythms of the words of writer Robert Walser.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at how, in a quantum universe, time and space could still be continuous not discrete.
- Strange Company looks at a court case from 1910s Brooklyn, about a parrot that swore.
- The Volokh Conspiracy notes an affirmative action court case in which it was ruled that someone from Gibraltar did not count as Hispanic.
- Window on Eurasia notes rhetoric claiming that Russians are the largest divided people on the Earth.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at lizards and at California’s legendary Highway 101.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 12, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with animal intelligence, astronomy, austronesian languages, birds, blogs, borders, brooklyn, california, dance, economics, education, england, english language, environment, exoplanets, gibraltar, history, imperialism, ireland, language, libya, links, lizards, mexico, moon, netherlands, parrots, paul delvaux, physics, politics, popular culture, popular literature, public art, reptiles, russia, science fiction, siraya, social sciences, sociology, space science, space travel, spiders, taiwan, tripoli, united kingdom
[NEWS] Five #Indigenous links: land ownership, astronomy, Pueblo, transgender, MakadeMigize
- JSTOR Daily looks at the myth that land ownership was not present in pre-Columbian Indigenous cultures in the Americas.
- CBC takes a look at Indigenous traditions of astronomy.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how white female reformers of the early 20th century US tried to repress the sacred dances of the Pueblo peoples, and why.
- CBC had a great feature about how Cree doctor James Makokis uses Indigenous perspectives to treat his trans clientele.
- This report about MakadeMigize Clothing, a company created by a Manitoba family whose clothes are inspired by Indigenous languages. Global News covers the issue.
Written by Randy McDonald
April 22, 2019 at 10:45 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
Tagged with astronomy, canada, dance, fashion, first nations, gender, language, links, manitoba, news, popular culture, pueblo, religion, sexuality, transgender, united states
[URBAN NOTE] Five links about cities: dance, libraries, urban agriculture, density, H.P. Lovecraft
- Guardian Cities raises an interesting possibility: Could choreographers contribute to better-designed cities?
- CityLab considers if public libraries might taken on greater civic importance as archives for public data.
- Miguel Altieri argues at The Conversation that urban agriculture can improve food security in American cities, drawing from models in Cuba and Argentina.
- The more the density of residents and infrastructures increases, studies have found, the less the impact on the natural environment. Building up is green. Global News reports.
- At CityMetric, Mark Clapham considers the city as it appears in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
Written by Randy McDonald
February 15, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with agriculture, argentina, cities, cuba, dance, environment, h.p. lovecraft, latin america, libraries, popular culture, popular literature, science fiction, united states, Urban Note
[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait explains the potential discovery of an ancient rock from Earth among the Moon rocks collected by Apollo.
- Centauri Dreams looks at what will be coming next from the New Horizons probe after its Ultima Thule flyby.
- The Crux looks at the genetic library of threatened animals preserved cryogenically in a San Diego zoo.
- Far Outliers looks at the drastic, even catastrophic, population changes of Sichuan over the past centuries.
- Language Hat looks at translations made in the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- Language Log tries to translate a possibly Indo-European sentence preserved in an ancient Chinese text.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the complexity of the crisis in Venezuela.
- The LRB Blog looks at the Mexican-American border in this era of crisis.
- Marginal Revolution notes a spike in unsolved shootings in Baltimore following protests against police racism.
- Noah Smith reviews the new Tyler Cowen book, Stubborn Attachments.
- Adam Shatz at the NYR Daily reviews what sounds like a fantastic album of anti-colonial Francophone music inspired by Frantz Fanon and assembled by French rapper Rocé.
- The Planetary Society Blog takes a look what is next for China as it continues its program to explore the Moon.
- Roads and Kingdoms interviews Monique Jaques about her new photo book looking at the lives of girls growing up in Gaza.
- Rocky Planets takes a look at how rocks can form political boundaries.
- Drew Rowsome interviews choreographer Christopher House about his career and the next shows at the Toronto Dance Theatre.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel takes a look at the seeming featurelessness of Uranus.
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at a controversial swap of land proposed between Serbia and Kosovo.
- Window on Eurasia notes the controversial possibility of China contracting Russia to divert Siberian rivers as a water supply.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at the origins of Uri and Avi, a photo of apparently showing two men, one Palestinian and one Israeli, kissing.
Written by Randy McDonald
January 26, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto
Tagged with astronomy, baltimore, biology, blogs, book reviews, borders, china, chinese language, christopher house, crime, dance, Demographics, dsiasters, earth, economics, environment, evolution, former yugoslavia, francophonie, frantz fanon, french language, genetics, glbt issues, globalization, history, imperialism, israel, kosovo, kuiper belt, language, latin america, links, mexico, middle east, moon, new horizons, palestinians, photos, police, popular music, public art, racism, russia, serbia, siberia, sichuan, solar system, south america, space science, space travel, theatre, toronto, ultima thule, united states, uranus, venezuela, war
[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Anthro{dendum] considers drifting on roads as an indicator of social dynamism, of creative reuse of road infrastructures by the young.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares photos of the Christmas Tree Cluster, a portion of NGC 2264.
- Centauri Dreams notes how the strange polar orbit of GJ 436b indicates the presence of a neighbouring exoplanet so far not detected directly.
- Crooked Timber considers the import of perhaps racist codings in children’s literature.
- D-Brief examines how NASA is trying to quietly break the sound barrier.
- Bruce Dorminey suggests building a Mars-orbit space station makes sense for us as our next major move in space.
- Hornet Stories shares the story of queer male Lebanese belly dancer Moe Khansa and his art.
- Language Hat notes how one student made substantial progress of decoding the ancient khipus, knotted string records, of the Incan civilization.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the obvious point that opioids actually do help people manage chronic pain effectively, that they have legitimate uses.
- Allan Metcalf at Lingua Franca talks about some of the peculiarities of English as spoken in Utah.
- Noah Smith at Noahpinion argues the disappearance of the positive impact of college on the wages who drop out before completing their program shows the importance of higher education as a generator of human capital, not as a simple sort of signal.
- The NYR Daily looks at some particularly egregious instances of gerrymandering in the United States.
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer examines the origins of street violence as a political force in modern Argentina.
- Roads and Kingdoms looks at the Seoul neighbourhood of Haebangchon, “Little Pyongyang,” a district once populated by North Korean and Vietnamese refugees now becoming a cosmopolitan district for people from around the world.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes the origins of the atoms of our body in stellar catastrophes detectable from across the universe.
- Strange Company notes the case of Catherine Packard, reported dead in 1929 but then found alive. Whose body wasit?
- Towleroad reports a study suggesting same-sex relationships tend to be more satisfying for their participants than opposite-sex relationships are for theirs.
- Window on Eurasia notes how a Russian Orthodox group is joining the fight against Tatarstan’s autonomy.
Written by Randy McDonald
December 23, 2017 at 9:30 am
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with anthropology, archeology, argentina, astronomy, blogs, borders, dance, democracy, drifting, drugs, economics, education, elections, english language, ethnic conflict, exoplanets, federalism, first nations, glbt issues, haebangchon, health, inca, khipu, khipus, korea, latin america, lebanon, links, mars, medicine, middle east, migration, moe khansa, neighbourhoods, ngc 2264, oddities, peru, photos, popular literature, russia, seoul, sexuality, social sciences, sociology, south america, south korea, space science, space travel, tatarstan, technology, united states, utah, vietnam, writing
[BLOG] Some Friday links
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly talks about her favourite things in New York City.
- Centauri Dreams features an essay by Nick Nielsen arguing in favour of manned spaceflight.
- The Dragon’s Gaze notes the unusual chemical composition of the debris disk of HD 34700.
- The Dragon’s Tales notes Finland’s interest in a guaranteed minimum income.
- Language Log notes the complexities of Wenzhou dialect.
- Languages of the World shares an old post on the Roma and their language.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that prison rape in the United States is a real thing.
- pollotenchegg looks at birth rate trends in Ukraine over 2013-2015.
- Savage Minds notes the difficulties of life as an anthropologist.
- Torontoist notes a dance festival in Seaton Village.
- Towleroad notes the Illinois ban on gay conversion therapy.
- Transit Toronto looks at the TTC’s service in the time of the Canadian National Exhibition.
- Window on Eurasia looks at a Ukrainian nationalist criticism of Ukrainian policy after independence, and suggests that fear of a Russian nationalist backlash might lead to a Russian annexation of Donbas.
Written by Randy McDonald
August 21, 2015 at 7:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with anthropology, astronomy, blogs, borders, chinese language, crime, dance, Demographics, economics, exoplanets, finland, former soviet union, glbt issues, holidays, language, links, mass transit, new york city, norden, politics, popular culture, roma, russia, seaton village, sexuality, space science, space travel, toronto, tourism, ttc, ukraine, united states, wenzhou