Posts Tagged ‘north caucasus’
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- {anthro}dendum features a post by Kimberly J. Lewis about strategies for anthropologists to write, and be human, after trauma.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on exoplanet LHC 3844b, a world that had its atmosphere burned away by its parent star.
- Centauri Dreams looks at Neptune from the perspective of exoplanets discovered near snow lines.
- D-Brief reports on the new Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, installed at Kitt Peak to help map galaxies and dark energy.
- Gizmodo
- looks at how Airbnb is dealing with party houses after a fatal mass shooting.
- The Island Review shares some drawings by Charlotte Watson, inspired by the subantarctic Auckland Islands.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the late 19th century hit novel Ramona, written by Helen Hunt Jackson to try to change American policy towards indigenous peoples.
- Language Hat looks at how, until recently, the Faroese language had taboos requiring certain words not to be used at sea.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at a proposal to partially privatize American national parks.
- The LRB Blog looks at what Nigel Farage will be doing next.
- Marginal Revolution looks at a speculative theory on the origins of American individualism in agrarian diversity.
- The NYR Daily looks at an exhibition of the artwork of John Ruskin.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw remarks on a connection between Arthur Ransome and his region of New England.
- Drew Rowsome shares an interview with folk musician Michelle Shocked.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel emphasizes the importance of the dark energy mystery.
- Towleroad notes a posthumous single release by George Michael.
- Daniel Little at Understanding Society celebrates the 12th anniversary of his blog, and looks back at its history.
- Window on Eurasia looks at Ingushetia after 1991.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at All Saints Day.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 6, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with airbnb, all saints' day, anthropology, arthur ransome, astronomy, auckland islands, australia, blogging, blogs, clash of ideologies, crime, european union, exoplanets, faroes, first nations, george michael, glbt issues, holidays, islands, language, lhc 3844b, links, michelle shocked, neptune, new england, north caucasus, physics, politics, popular literature, popular music, public art, russia, separatism, snow line, social sciences, sociology, space science, technology, united kingdom, united states, west norden, writing
[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Bruce Dorminey notes that NASA plans to launch a CubeSat into lunar orbit for navigational purposes.
- Far Outliers looks at an instance of a knight seeking to avoid battle.
- io9 looks at how Boris Johnson ludicrously compared himself to the Hulk.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how climate change helped make civil war in Syria possible.
- Language Hat looks at a bad etymology for “province” published by a reputable source.
- Marginal Revolution notes that the United States has had below-average economic growth since 2005. (The new average, I suppose?)
- Drew Rowsome reviews the new Stephen King novel, The Institute.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains that, with K2-18b, we did not find water on an Earth-like exoplanet.
- Strange Company looks at a peculiar case of alleged reincarnation from mid-20th century Canada.
- Window on Eurasia notes how, although North Caucasians marry at higher rates than the Russian average, these marriages are often not reported to officialdom.
- Arnold Zwicky considers the possible meanings, salacious and otherwise, of a “Boy Party”.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 16, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with astronomy, blogs, brexit, canada, comics, cubesat, economics, english language, european union, former soviet union, glbt issues, global warming, history, humour, language, links, marvel comics, middle east, moon, north caucasus, oddities, popular culture, popular literature, russia, separatism, space science, space travel, statistics, stephen king, syruia, united kingdom, united states, war
[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares images of galaxy M61.
- Centauri Dreams looks at a proposal for the Solar Cruiser probe, a NASA probe that would use a solar sail.
- D-Brief notes the discovery of bacteria on coasts which manufacture dimethyl sulfide.
- Bruce Dorminey writes about some facts about the NASA X-15 rocket plane.
- The Dragon’s Tales reports on the strange nuclear accident in Nyonoksa, Russia.
- JSTOR Daily reports on the recent uncovering of the ancient Egyptian city of Heracleion, under the Mediterranean.
- Language Hat looks at 19th century standards on ancient Greek language.
- Language Log notes an ironically swapped newspaper article subhead.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the role of Tom Cotton in the recent Greenland scandal.
- Marginal Revolution glances at the relationship between China and Singapore.
- The NYR Daily looks at how the car ride played a role in the writing of Jacques Lacan.
- The Russian Demographics Blog shares an index on state fragility around the world.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains why Jupiter suffers so many impacts from incoming bodies.
- John Scalzi at Whatever reports on what seems to have been an enjoyable concert experience with Iron Maiden.
- Window on Eurasia reports a claim that, with regards to a border dispute, Chechnya is much more unified than Dagestan.
Written by Randy McDonald
August 26, 2019 at 4:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with archeology, astronomy, blogs, borders, chechnya, china, dagestan, disasters, egypt, environment, galaxies, greece, greenland, heracleion, iron maiden, journalism, jupiter, language, links, m61, military, national identity, north caucasus, nuclear energy, oceans, politics, popular music, russia, singapore, solar cruiser, solar system, southeast asia, space science, space travel, technology, united states, writing, x-15
[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait looks at Westerlund-1, a massive star cluster with many bright stars in our galaxy.
- Centauri Dreams notes a finding that giant planets like Jupiter are less likely to be found around Sun-like stars.
- D-Brief notes how, in a time of climate change, birds migrated between Canada and the equator.
- Bruce Dorminey lists five overlooked facts about the Apollo 11 mission.
- The Dragon’s Tales notes that the US House of Representatives has approved the creation of a US Space Corps analogous to the Marines.
- JSTOR Daily considers tactics to cure groupthink.
- Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, looking at the experience of Hong Kong, observes how closely economic freedoms depend on political freedom and legitimacy.
- Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog explains his rationale for calculating that the Apollo project, in 2019 dollars, cost more than $US 700 billion.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at the star R136a1, a star in the 30 Doradus cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud that is the most massive star known to exist.
- Window on Eurasia notes how Circassians in Syria find it very difficult to seek refuge in their ancestral lands in the North Caucasus.
- Arnold Zwicky looks, in occasionally NSFW detail, at the importance of June the 16th for him as a date.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 17, 2019 at 5:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with 30 doradus, apollo 11, astronomy, birds, blogs, china, circassians, diaspora, earth, economics, environment, exoplanets, history, hong kong, large magellanic cloud, links, manned apollo missions, middle east, military, milky way galaxy, non blog, north caucasus, r136a1, refugees, russia, Science, social sciences, sociology, space science, space travel, syria, united states, westerlund-1
[URBAN NOTE] Some Saturday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait considers the possibility that our model for the evolution of galaxies might be partially disproven by Big Data.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly reports how she did her latest article for the New York Times.
- Centauri Dreams notes the beginning of a search for habitable-zone planets around Alpha Centauri A and B.
- The Crux looks at how the skull trophies of the ancient Maya help explain civilizational collapse.
- D-Brief notes new evidence suggesting that our humble, seemingly stable Sun can produce superflares.
- Dead Things reports on the latest informed speculation about the sense of smell of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
- The Dragon’s Tales shares the NASA report on its progress towards the Lunar Gateway station.
- Gizmodo looks at the growing number of China’s beautiful, deadly, blooms of bioluminescent algae.
- io9 reports that Stjepan Sejic has a new series with DC, exploring the inner life of Harley Quinn.
- JSTOR Daily looks at an example of a feminist musical, the Chantal Akerman The Eighties.
- Language Hat links to a review of a dystopian novel by Yoko Tawada, The Emissary, imagining a future Japan where the learning of foreign languages is banned.
- Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reiterates that history, and the writing of history, is an actual profession with skills and procedures writers in the field need to know.
- Liam Shaw writes at the LRB Blog about how people in London, late in the Second World War, coped with the terrifying attacks of V2 rockets.
- The Map Room Blog links to a new book, Wayfinding, about the neuroscience of navigation.
- Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution reviews a Robert Zubrin book advocating the colonization of space and finds himself unconvinced.
- The Planetary Society Blog looks at the ancient comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko explored by the ESA Rosetta probe.
- Roads and Kingdoms provides tips for visitors to the Paraguay capital of Asuncion.
- Peter Rukavina reports that, on the day the new PEI legislature came in, 105% of Island electricity came from windpower.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel argues that, in searching for life, we should not look for exoplanets very like Earth.
- Strange Company shares another weekend collection of diverse links.
- Understanding Society’s Daniel Little shares the views of Margaret Gilbert on social facts.
- Window on Eurasia suggests Kadyrov might dream of a broad Greater Chechnya, achieved at the expense of neighbouring republics.
- Arnold Zwicky considers some superhero identity crises, of Superman and of others.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 15, 2019 at 6:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Writing
Tagged with alpha centauri, archeology, astronomy, asuncion, atlantic canada, big data, blogs, borders, canada, chechnya, china, comet 67p, comets, comics, dc comics, dinosaurs, disasters, dystopia, energy, environment, exoplanets, feminism, galaxies, gender, harley quinn, historiography, history, human beings, humour, japan, journalism, language, links, london, lunar gateway, mass media, maya, military, moon, musicals, north caucasus, paraguay, popular literature, prince edward island, psychology, russia, Science, second world war, social facts, social sciences, sociology, space colonies, space science, space travel, sun, tourism, travel, united kingdom, war, writing
[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Architectuul looks at some architecturally innovative pools.
- Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait looks at Wolf 359, a star made famous in Star Trek for the Starfleet battle there against the Borg but also a noteworthy red dwarf star in its own right.
- Centauri Dreams looks at how the NASA Deep Space Atomic Clock will play a vital role in interplanetary navigation.
- The Crux considers the “drunken monkey” thesis, the idea that drinking alcohol might have been an evolutionary asset for early hominids.
- D-Brief reports on what may be the next step for genetic engineering beyond CRISPR.
- Bruce Dorminey looks at how artificial intelligence may play a key role in searching for threat asteroids.
- The Island Review shares some poetry from Roseanne Watt, inspired by the Shetlands and using its dialect.
- Livia Gershon writes at JSTOR Daily about how YouTube, by promising to make work fun, actually also makes fun work in psychologically problematic ways.
- Marginal Revolution notes how the relatively small Taiwan has become a financial superpower.
- Janine di Giovanni at the NYR Daily looks back at the 2000 intervention in Sierra Leone. Why did it work?
- Jamais Cascio at Open the Future looks back at a 2004 futurological exercise, the rather accurate Participatory Panopticon. What did he anticipate correctly? How? What does it suggest for us now to our world?
- The Planetary Society Blog notes that LightSail 2 will launch before the end of June.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at how the discovery of gas between galaxies helps solve a dark matter question.
- Strange Company shares a broad collection of links.
- Window on Eurasia makes the obvious observation that the West prefers a North Caucasus controlled by Russia to one controlled by Islamists.
- Arnold Zwicky takes a look at American diner culture, including American Chinese food.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 8, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with alcohol, architecture, artificial intelligence, asteroids, astronomy, blogs, dark matter, economics, evolution, futurology, genetic engineering, genetics, geopolitics, globalization, human beings, lightsail 2, links, north caucasus, physics, politics, popular culture, popular literature, psychology, red dwarfs, restaurants, russia, scotland, shetlands, sierra leone, social networking, solar sails, space science, space travel, star trek, taiwan, technology, united kingdom, war, west africa, wolf 359, youtube
[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
Tagged with agriculture, architecture, asteroids, astronomy, australia, belarus, blogs, blue, british empire, canada, cantonese, cetaceans, china, chinese language, circassians, clash of ideologies, communism, diaspora, earth, evolution, exoplanets, former soviet union, fossils, galaxies, glbt issues, hayabusa 2, history, human beings, human biengs, humour, i.m. pei, in memoriam, indonesia, j005311, jane siberry, japan, kuiper belt, language, libraries, links, maps, mars, mass media, milky way galaxy, modernism, moon, new england, new horizons, ngc 4485, north caucasus, nunavut, ontario, orientalism, philosophy, photos, pluto, regionalism, religion, russia, ryugu, sam harris, san francisco, Science, separatism, social sciences, sociology, solar system, southeast asia, space science, space travel, supernova, technology, turkey, ultima thule, united states, vietnam, vietnam war, violence, war, white dwarfs
[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
Tagged with african-americans, apollo 10, architecture, argentina, asteroids, astronomy, blogs, brazil, california, chang'e 4, china, clash of ideologies, comics, crime, elections, environment, exoplanets, food, former soviet union, germany, globalization, health, history, hiv/aids, human beings, i.m. pei, in memoriam, iran, language, latin america, libraries, links, manned apollo missions, marvel, marvel comics, medicine, military, moon, neanderthals, new england, north caucasus, oddities, ontario, peru, pluto, regionalism, russia, Science, solar system, south america, space science, space travel, sports, technology, truvada, united kingdom, united states, venera, venus, violence, white dwarfs, x-men
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Charlie Stross hosts at Antipope another discussion thread examining Brexit.
- Architectuul takes a look at five overlooked mid-20th century architects.
- Bad Astronomy shares a satellite photo of auroras at night over the city lights of the Great Lakes basin and something else, too.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly writes about the directions love has taken her, and wonders where it might have taken her readers.
- Centauri Dreams reports on the Hayabusa 2 impactor on asteroid Ryugu.
- John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with the claims of Steven Pinker about nuclear power.
- D-Brief notes the detection, in remarkable detail, of a brilliant exocomet at Beta Pictoris.
- The Dragon’s Tales considers the possibility that China might be building a military base in Cambodia.
- Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the importance of small social cues, easily overlookable tough they are.
- Far Outliers notes the role of Japan’s imperial couple, Akihito and Michiko, in post-war Japan.
- L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing writes about the potential inadequacy of talking about values.
- Gizmodo notes a new study suggesting the surprising and potentially dangerous diversity of bacteria present on the International Space Station.
- Mark Graham shares a link to a paper, and its abstract, examining what might come of the creation of a planetary labour market through the gig economy.
- Hornet Stories takes a look at Red Ribbon Blues, a 1995 AIDS-themed film starring RuPaul.
- io9 notes that Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke are co-writing a Pan’s Labyrinth novel scheduled for release later this year.
- Joe. My. God. notes a new study suggesting 20% of LGBTQ Americans live in rural areas.
- JSTOR Daily takes a look at the Bluestockings, the grouping of 18th century women in England who were noteworthy scholars and writers.
- Language Hat notes an ambitious new historical dictionary of the Arabic language being created by the emirate of Sharjah.
- Language Log examines, in the aftermath of a discussion of trolls, different cultures’ terms for different sorts of arguments.
- Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how early forestry in the United States was inspired by socialist ideals.
- The Map Room Blog links to a map showing the different national parks of the United Kingdom.
- Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution, noting the new findings from the Chixculub impact, notes how monitoring asteroids to prevent like catastrophes in the future has to be a high priority.
- The New APPS Blog explains how data, by its very nature, is so easily made into a commodity.
- The NYR Daily considers the future of the humanities in a world where higher education is becoming preoccupied by STEM.
- Corey S. Powell at Out There interviews Bear Grylls about the making of his new documentary series Hostile Planet.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw considers the pleasures of birds and of birdwatching.
- Jason C. Davis at the Planetary Society Blog noted the arrival of the Beresheet probe in lunar orbit.
- Drew Rowsome reviews the new amazing-sounding play Angelique at the Factory Theatre.
- The Russian Demographics Blog notes a paper that makes the point of there being no automatic relationship between greater gender equality and increases in fertility.
- The Signal looks at how the Library of Congress has made use of the BagIt programming language in its archiving of data.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel comes up with questions to ask plausible visitors from other universes.
- Strange Company notes the mysterious deaths visited on three members of a British family in the early 20th century. Who was the murderer? Was there even a crime?
- Towleroad notes the activists, including Canadian-born playwright Jordan Tannahill, who disrupted a high tea at the Dorchester Hotel in London over the homophobic law passed by its owner, the Sultan of Brunei.
- Window on Eurasia notes rising instability in Ingushetia.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes that the British surveillance of Huawei is revealing the sorts of problems that must be present in scrutiny-less Facebook, too.
Written by Randy McDonald
April 9, 2019 at 7:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with arab language, asteroids, astronomy, big data, birds, blogs, bluestockings, brexit, brunei, cambodia, china, crime, Demographics, disasters, earth, environment, european union, facebook, feminism, forestry, gender, glbt issues, globalization, great lakes, hayabusa 2, history, hiv/aids, huawei, human rights, ingushetia, international space station, israel, japan, jordan tannahill, libraries, links, london, maps, middle east, military, moon, night, non blog, north caucasus, nuclear energy, oddities, parks, philosophy, photos, popular culture, popular literature, russia, ryugu, separatism, sharjah, social networking, social sciences, sociology, southeast asia, space colonies, space science, space travel, technology, theatre, toronto, united arab emirates, united kingdom, united states, writing
[BLOG] Some Friday links
- Centauri Dreams notes the astounding precision of the new Habitable Planet Finder telescope.
- D-Brief notes that the lack of small craters on Pluto and Charon suggests there are not many small bodies in the Kuiper Belt.
- Far Outliers notes the many and widely varying transliterations of Bengali to English.
- JSTOR Daily notes the extent to which border walls represent, ultimately, a failure of politics.
- Language Log examines the emergence of the Germanic languages in the depths of prehistory.
- Anna Aslanyan at the LRB Blog considers the eternal search for a universal language.
- Noah Smith shareshis Alternative Green New Deal Plan at his blog, one that depends more on technology and market forces than the original.
- Mitchell Abidor at the NYR Daily writes about the incisive leftism of journalist Victor Sorge.
- Out There notes the reality that the worlds of our solar system, and almost certainly other systems, are united by a constant stream of incoming rocks.
- At the Planetary Society Blog, Emily Lakdawalla examines the data transmitted back by OSIRIS-REx from that probe’s Earth flyby.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel examines cosmic conditions at the time the solar system formed 4.56 billion or so years ago.
- Towleroad notes the censorship of many explicitly gay scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody in its Chinese release.
- Window on Eurasia looks at the many ways in which the social norms of North Caucasian men are converging with those of the average Russian.
- On St. David’s Day, Arnold Zwicky pays tribute to the daffodil and to the Welsh.
Written by Randy McDonald
March 1, 2019 at 2:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with asteroids, astronomy, bangladesh, bengali language, blogs, bohemian rhapsody, borders, charon, china, clash of ideologies, daffodil, economics, english language, extraterrestrial life, flowers, freddie mercury, futurology, gender, germanic, glbt issues, green new deal, history, holidays, india, indo-european, journalism, kuiper belt, language, links, north caucasus, osiris-rex, photos, pluto, politics, queen, sociology, solar system, south asia, space science, technology, translation, united states, victor sorge, wales, writing