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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Architectuul looks at the history of brutalism in late 20th century Turkey.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the evidence for the Milky Way Galaxy having seen a great period of starburst two billion years ago, and notes how crowded the Milky Way Galaxy is in the direction of Sagittarius.
- Centauri Dreams considers if astrometry might start to become useful as a method for detecting planets, and considers what the New Horizons data, to Pluto and to Ultima Thule, will be known for.
- Belle Waring at Crooked Timber considers if talk of forgiveness is, among other things, sound.
- D-Brief considers the possibility that the differing natures of the faces of the Moon can be explained by an ancient dwarf planet impact, and shares images of dust-ringed galaxy NGC 4485.
- Dead Things notes the discovery of fossil fungi one billion years old in Nunavut.
- Far Outliers looks at how, over 1990, Russia became increasingly independent from the Soviet Union, and looks at the final day in office of Gorbachev.
- Gizmodo notes the discovery of literally frozen oceans of water beneath the north polar region of Mars, and looks at an unusual supernova, J005311 ten thousand light-years away in Cassiopeia, product of a collision between two white dwarfs.
- JSTOR Daily notes how the colour of navy blue is a direct consequence of slavery and militarism, and observes the historical influence, or lack thereof, of Chinese peasant agriculture on organic farming in the US.
- Language Log considers a Chinese-language text from San Francisco combining elements of Mandarin and Cantonese.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the terrible environmental consequences of the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia, and Shakezula at Lawyers, Guns and Money takes a look at how, and perhaps why, Sam Harris identifies milkshake-throwing at far-right people as a form of “mock assassination”.
- The Map Room Blog shares a personal take on mapmaking on the Moon during the Apollo era.
- Marginal Revolution observes a paper suggesting members of the Chinese communist party are more liberal than the general Chinese population. The blog also notes how Soviet quotas led to a senseless and useless mass slaughter of whales.
- Russell Darnley writes about the complex and tense relationship between Indonesia and Australia, each with their own preoccupations.
- Martin Filler writes at the NYR Daily about I.M. Pei as an architect specializing in an “establishment modernism”. The site also takes a look at Orientalism, as a phenomenon, as it exists in the post-9/11 era.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw reflects on the meaning of Australia’s New England.
- The Planetary Society Blog notes how Hayabusa 2 is having problems recovering a marker from asteroid Ryugu.
- Peter Rukavina reports on an outstanding Jane Siberry concert on the Island.
- The Russian Demographics Blog shares a map of homophobia in Europe.
- The Signal looks at how the Library of Congress makes use of wikidata.
- The Speed River Journal’s Van Waffle reports, with photos, from his latest walks this spring.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel considers what the Earth looked like when hominids emerged, and explains how amateur astronomers can capture remarkable images.
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a controversial map depicting the shift away from CNN towards Fox News across the United States.
- Daniel Little at Understanding Society examines the Boeing 737 MAX disaster as an organizational failure.
- Window on Eurasia looks why Turkey is backing away from supporting the Circassians, and suggests that the use of the Russian Orthodox Church by the Russian state as a tool of its rule might hurt the church badly.
- Arnold Zwicky takes apart, linguistically and otherwise, a comic playing on the trope of Lassie warning about something happening to Timmy. He also
reports on a far-removed branch of the Zwicky family hailing from Belarus, as the Tsvikis.
Written by Randy McDonald
May 28, 2019 at 5:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Architectuul notes the recent death of I.M. Pei.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes what, exactly, rubble-pile asteroids are.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly writes about definitions of home.
- Centauri Dreams considers white dwarf planets.
- The Crux notes how ultra-processed foods are liked closely to weight gain.
- D-Brief observes that a thin layer of insulating ice might be saving the subsurface oceans of Pluto from freezing out.
- Bruce Dorminey notes the critical role played by Apollo 10 in getting NASA ready for the Moon landings.
- The Dragon’s Tales notes the American government’s expectation that China will seek to set up its own global network of military bases.
- Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina reports on the Soviet Union’s Venera 5 and 6 missions to Venus.
- Far Outliers looks at the visit of U.S. Grant to Japan and China.
- Gizmodo notes a recent analysis of Neanderthal teeth suggesting that they split with Homo sapiens at a date substantially earlier than commonly believed.
- io9 notes the sheer scale of the Jonathan Hickman reboots for the X-Men comics of Marvel.
- Joe. My. God. shares the argument of Ted Cruz that people should stop making fun of his “space pirate” suggestion.I am inclined to think Cruz more right than not, actually.
- JSTOR Daily notes the wave of anti-black violence that hit the United States in 1919, often driven by returned veterans.
- Language Hat shares a recognizable complaint, written in ancient Akkadian, of bad customers.
- Language Log shares a report of a village in Brittany seeking people to decipher a mysterious etching.
- This Scott Lemieux report at Lawyers, Guns and Money about how British conservatives received Ben Shapiro is a must-read summary.
- Benjamin Markovits at the LRB Blog shares the reasons why he left his immigrant-heavy basketball team in Germany.
- Marginal Revolution looks at one effort in Brazil to separate people from their street gangs.
- The NYR Daily looks at how ISIS, deprived of its proto-state, has managed to thrive as a decentralized network.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw tells of his experiences and perceptions of his native region of New England, in southeastern Australia.
- The Planetary Society Blog notes how the Chang’e 4 rover may have found lunar mantle on the surface of the Moon.
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer notes that while Argentine president Mauricio Macri is polling badly, his opponents are not polling well.
- Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of things to do in see in the Peru capital of Lima.
- The Signal examines how the Library of Congress engages in photodocumentation.
- Van Waffle at the Speed River Journal explains how he is helping native insects by planting native plants in his garden.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes how scientific illiteracy should never be seen as cool.
- Towleroad notes the questions of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as to why Truvada costs so much in the United States.
- Window on Eurasia notes how family structures in the North Caucasus are at once modernizing and becoming more conservative.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes how the distribution of US carriers and their fleets at present does not support the idea of a planned impending war with Iran.
- Arnold Zwicky examines the tent caterpillar of California.
Written by Randy McDonald
May 22, 2019 at 7:45 am
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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