Posts Tagged ‘racism’
[OBSCURA] For #blackouttuesday
h/t to Twitter’s Jay Pitter for the original image, here.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 2, 2020 at 5:45 pm
Posted in Photo, Politics, Popular Culture
Tagged with black, blackouttuesday, obscura, photos, racism
[NEWS] Seven Christmas links: Bowie and Bing, horror, ghosts, holidays, xenophobia, Elf on the Shelf
- Dangerous Minds shares the story of the remarkable duet between Bing Crosby and David Bowie.
- Dangerous Minds looks at the 1980 horror film To All A Goodnight.
- Strange Company shares a strange story, of a ghostly choir reportedly heard in 1944, here.
- Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog writes about why she and her husband each take Christmas seriously.
- Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the xenophobia behind the idea of a War on Christmas, going back to the anti-Semitism of Henry Ford.
- JSTOR Daily carries suggestions that the idea of the Grinch, from Dr. Seuss, has anti-Semitic origins.
- VICE makes the case for the creepiness of the Elf on the Shelf in the context of a surveillance society, here.
Written by Randy McDonald
December 26, 2019 at 11:00 am
Posted in Assorted, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
Tagged with anti-semitism, bing crosby, christmas, david bowie, elf on the shelf, henry ford, holidays, horror, links, news, oddities, panopticon, popular culture, popular music, racism, seuss, united kingdom, united states
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links
- John Lorinc at Spacing considers the complication idea of a city charter for Toronto. Is it worth it? Does it ignore other governance issues?
- Tourism is booming in Toronto, transforming the economy of the metropolis. The Toronto Star reports.
- NOW Toronto notes how the Toronto District School Board is introducing educational courses intended to prepare students for careers in hospitality.
- Legal controversy surrounding the governance of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and other like cemeteries in Toronto, is ongoing. The Toronto Star reports.
- In Milton, the owner of an illegal rooming house where one tenant died has been found financially liable. CBC reports.
- The Toronto Star tells the story of soldiers returning from the First World War who attacked Chinatown and its inhabitants, here.
- NOW Toronto points to an exhibition of photos created in solidarity with Hong Kong journalists.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 26, 2019 at 9:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with cemetaries, chinatown, crime, democracy, economics, education, first world war, hong kong, journalism, mount pleasant, photos, politics, racism, rooming houses, three torontos, toronto, tourism, Urban Note
[NEWS] Five NYR Daily links: Colombia, slavery, churches, journalism, Shakespeare&Co (@nyr_daily)
- The NYR Daily shares a report from Colombia, about the ways in which the filling of the Hidroituango Dam interacts with Colombia’s other social and political issues, here.
- Sean Wilentz makes the compelling argument at the NYR Daily that the young United States was a critical venue for antislavery movements, here.
- The NYR Daily tells the stories of two churches, one white and one black, as they merge, here.
- The NYR Daily shares the stories of a half-dozen pioneering, but overlooked, black woman journalists in the United States, here.
- Caitlin O’Keefe tells at the NYR Daily of how Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company played a key role in the growth of feminism, here.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 24, 2019 at 10:58 pm
Posted in Assorted, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
Tagged with african-americans, blogs, bookstores, churches, colombia, energy, feminism, france, journalism, latin america, links, news, paris, politics, racism, slavery, south america, united states, women
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Bad Astronomer notes a new study explaining how climate change makes hurricanes more destructive.
- Centauri Dreams shares a mosaic photo of the sky with Alpha Centauri highlighted.
- The Crux shares a paper explaining why the bubonic plague rarely becomes mass epidemics like the Black Death of the 14th century.
- D-Brief notes the new ESA satellite ARIEL, which will be capable of determining of exoplanet skies are clear or not.
- Gizmodo consults different experts on the subject of smart drugs. Do they work?
- JSTOR Daily explains why Native Americans are so prominent in firefighting in the US Southwest.
- Language Log looks at evidence for the diffusion of “horse master” between speakers of ancient Indo-European and Sinitic languages.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the election of Chesa Boudin as San Francisco District Attorney.
- The LRB Blog considers the apparent pact between Farage and Johnson on Brexit.
- Marginal Revolution looks at a paper examining longer-run effects of the integration of the US military on racial lines in the Korean War.
- The NYR Daily looks at how Big Pharma in the US is trying to deal with the opioid epidemic.
- The Signal explains how the Library of Congress is expanding its collections of digital material.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains how future generations of telescopes will be able to directly measure the expansion of the universe.
- The Volokh Conspiracy explains why DACA, giving succor to Dreamers, is legal.
- Window on Eurasia notes that, after a century of tumult, the economy of Russia is back at the same relative ranking that it enjoyed a century ago.
- Arnold Zwicky reports on an old butch cookbook.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 13, 2019 at 3:45 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with alpha centauri, astronomy, blogs, brexit, bubonic plague, california, chinese language, disasters, economics, environment, epidemics, european union, exoplanets, first nations, food, glbt issues, global warming, health, history, internet, language, libraries, links, migration, military, physics, politics, psychology, racism, russia, san francisco, Science, separatism, space science, technology, united kingdom, united states
[BLOG] Some Friday links
- Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait notes new research on where the sun is located within the Milky Way Galaxy.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly considers the value of slow fashion.
- Centauri Dreams notes the different gas giants that our early methods have yet to pick up.
- Crooked Timber shares a lovely photo looking back at Venice from across its lagoon.
- D-Brief notes that upcoming space telescopes might find hundreds of rogue planets thanks to microlensing.
- io9 notes that Marvel will soon be producing Warhammer40K comics.
- The Island Review shares some poetry and photography by Ken Cockburn inspired by the Isle of Jura.
- JSTOR Daily notes that different humpback whale groups have different songs, different cultures.
- Language Hat tries to find the meaning of the odd Soviet Yiddish word “kolvirt”.
- Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the history of Elizabeth Warren as a law teacher.
- Map Room Blog shares information from Google Maps about its use of data.
- Marginal Revolution notes that in 2016, not a single child born in the United Kingdom was given the name Nigel.
- Peter Watts talks about AI and what else he is doing.
- The NYR Daily marked the centennial of a horrible massacre of African-Americans centered on the Arkansas community of Elaine.
- Emily Margolis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at how the Apollo moon missions helped galvanize tourism in Florida.
- Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money looks at the constitutional crisis in Peru.
- Drew Rowsome takes a look at A Streetcar Named Desire.
- Peter Rukavina looks at a spreadsheet revealing the distribution of PEI public servants.
- Spacing reviews a book imagining how small communities can rebuild themselves in neoliberalism.
- Towleroad shares the criticism of Christine and the Queens of the allegedly opportunistic use of queer culture by Taylor Swift.
- Understanding Society considers, sociologically, the way artifacts work.
- The Volokh Conspiracy argues that the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the People’s Republic of China should be a day of mourning, on account of the high human toll of the PRC.
- Window on Eurasia suggests the Russian generation of the 1970s was too small to create lasting change.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at how underwear ads can be quite sexualized.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 11, 2019 at 10:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with animal intelligence, arkansas, artificial intelligence, astronomy, blogs, book reviews, cetaceans, china, comics, democracy, Demographics, elizabeth warren, ethnic cleansing, exoplanets, fashion, florida, former soviet union, glbt issues, google, isle of jura, italy, links, maps, milky way galaxy, peru, photos, politics, popular culture, popular music, prince edward island, racism, russia, science fiction, scotland, sexuality, social sciences, sociology, solar system, south america, space science, space travel, technology, theatre, tourism, united kingdom, united states, venetian lagoon, venice, yiddish
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Bad Astronomer notes the latest news on interstellar comet 2/Borisov.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly emphasizes how every writer does need an editor.
- Centauri Dreams notes how the gas giant GJ 3512 b, half the mass of Jupiter orbiting a red dwarf star closely, is an oddly massive exoplanet.
- Gina Schouten at Crooked Timber looks at inter-generational clashes on parenting styles.
- D-Brief looks at the methods of agriculture that could conceivably sustain a populous human colony on Mars.
- Bruce Dorminey argues that we on Earth need something like Starfleet Academy, to help us advance into space.
- Colby King at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how the socio-spatial perspective helps us understand the development of cities.
- Russell Arben Fox at In Media Res listens to the Paul McCartney album Flaming Pie.
- io9 looks at Proxima, a contemporary spaceflight film starring Eva Green.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how the intense relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia began in, and reflected, the era of Jim Crow.
- Language Hat notes a report suggesting that multilingualism helps ward off dementia.
- Language Log takes issue with the names of the mascots of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the emergence of a ninth woman complaining about being harassed by Al Franken.
- Marginal Revolution links to a new paper arguing that the Washington Consensus worked.
- The NYR Daily shares an Aubrey Nolan cartoon illustrating the evacuation of war children in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
- At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane shares a nice collection of links for digital mapmakers.
- The Planetary Society Blog looks at how the European Space Agency supports the cause of planetary defense.
- Roads and Kingdoms interviews Kenyan writer Kevin Mwachiro at length.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel reports on how a mysterious fast radio burst helped illuminate an equally mysterious galactic halo.
- Strange Company reports on the mysterious and unsolved death in 1936 of Canadian student Thomas Moss in an Oxfordshire hayrick.
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes how Mount Etna is a surpassingly rare decipoint.
- Understanding Society considers the thought of Kojève, after Hegel, on freedom.
- Window on Eurasia looks at the falling numbers of Russians, and of state support for Russian language and culture, in independent Central Asia.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at how individual consumer responses are much less effective than concerted collective action in triggering change.
- Arnold Zwicky reports on some transgender fashion models.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 1, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with 2/borisov, africa, agriculture, al franken, astronomy, blogs, borders, canada, central asia, chinese language, cities, crime, Demographics, disasters, east africa, economics, european space agency, exocomets, family, fast radio bursts, former soviet union, futurology, gender, glbt issues, globalization, health, human rights, islands, italy, journalism, kenya, kevin mwachiro, links, maps, mars, middle east, mount etna, multilingualism, oddities, olympics, popular culture, popular music, racism, russian language, saudi arabia, second world war, sicily, sociology, space science, space travel, technology, transgender, united kingdom, united states, writing
[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how TESS detected a star being torn apart by a distant black hole.
- Centauri Dreams’ Paul Gilster looks at the past and future of the blog.
- Crooked Timber takes on the sensitive issue of private schools in the United Kingdom.
- The Crux considers the question of why women suffer from Alzheimer’s at a higher frequency than men.
- D-Brief notes a study suggesting that saving the oceans of the Earth could reduce the effects of global warming by 20%.
- Bruce Dorminey considers a paper suggesting that, if not for its volcanic resurfacing, Venus could have remained an Earth-like world to this day.
- The Dragon’s Tale notes that NASA will deploy a cubesat in the proposed orbit of the Lunar Gateway station to make sure it is a workable orbit.
- Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at Soyuz T-10a, the first crewed mission to abort on the launch pad.
- Gizmodo reports on a paper arguing that we should intentionally contaminate Mars (and other bodies?) with our world’s microbes.
- io9 looks at how Warner Brothers is trying to control, belatedly, the discourse around the new Joker movie.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how, in industrializing London, women kidnapped children off the streets.
- Language Hat links to a page examining the Arabic and Islamic elements in Dune.
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at a new documentary examining the life of Trump mentor Roy Cohn.
- The LRB Blog looks at how BBC protocols are preventing full discussion of public racism.
- The Map Room Blog looks at different efforts to reimagining the subway map of New York City.
- Marginal Revolution shares a paper claiming that increased pressure on immigrants to assimilate in Italy had positive results.
- The NYR Daily looks at the background to George Washington’s statements about the rightful place of Jews in the United States.
- Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog looks at the political explanation of the massive increase in the planetary defense budget of NASA.
- Drew Rowsome takes a look at the Rocky Horror Show, with its celebration of sexuality (among other things).
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel considers why there are so many unexpected black holes in the universe.
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps examines why Google Street View is not present in Germany (and Austria).
- The Volokh Conspiracy reports on a ruling in a UK court that lying about a vasectomy negates a partner’s consent to sex.
- Window on Eurasia notes the controversy about some Buryat intellectuals about giving the different dialects of their language too much importance.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 29, 2019 at 5:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with alzheimer's, asteroids, astornomy, austria, black holes, blogging, blogs, buryatia, crime, disasters, donald trump, earth, education, environment, extraterrestrial life, frank herbert, germany, glbt issues, global warming, google, health, history, human beings, journalism, judaism, language, links, london, lunar gateway, maps, mars, new york, new york city, oceans, panspermia, politics, popular culture, racism, roy cohn, russia, science fiction, sexuality, siberia, space science, space travel, subway, united kingdom, united states, venus
[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Architectuul shares photos from a bike tour of Berlin.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on new evidence that exocomets are raining on star Beta Pictoris.
- Larry Klaes at Centauri Dreams reviews the two late 1970s SF films Alien and Star Trek I, products of the same era.
- D-Brief reports on Hubble studies of the star clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
- Bruce Dorminey shares Gemini telescope images of interstellar comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov).
- The Dragon’s Tales shares video of Space X’s Starhopper test flight.
- Far Outliers notes the import of the 13th century Norman king of England calling himself Edward after an Anglo-Saxon king.
- Gizmodo notes that not only can rats learn to play hide and seek, they seem to enjoy it.
- io9 notes the fantastic high camp of Mister Sinister in the new Jonathan Hickman X-Men run, borrowing a note from Kieron Gillen’s portrayal of the character.
- Joe. My. God. notes that Guiliani’s soon-to-be ex-wife says he has descended from 911 hero to a liar.
- Language Log looks at the recent ridiculous suggestion that English, among other languages, descends from Chinese.
- The LRB Blog looks at the brief history of commemorating the V2 attacks on London.
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the practice in Saskatchewan of sterilizing First Nations women against their consent.
- Marginal Revolution suggests that farmers in Brazil might be getting a partly unfair treatment. (Partly.)
- The Planetary Society Blog explains why C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) matters.
- Window on Eurasia notes that, for the first time, immigrants from Turkmenistan in Belarus outnumber immigrants from Ukraine.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 14, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Canada, Demographics, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with agriculture, alien, animal intelligence, architecture, belarus, berlin, beta pictoris, bikes, blogs, brazil, c/2019 q4, canada, central asia, chinese language, clash of ideologies, comics, crime, cycling, empire, england, english language, environment, exocomets, exoplanets, first nations, former soviet union, galaxies, games, germany, glbt issues, language, large magellanic cloud, latin america, links, london, marvel comics, migration, national identity, politics, popular culture, racism, rats, saskatchewan, science fiction, second world war, south america, space science, space travel, star trek, technology, turkmenistan, ukraine, united kingdom, united states, war, x-men
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- The Buzz shares a TIFF reading list, here.
- Centauri Dreams notes the growing sensitivity of radial velocity techniques in finding weird exoplanet HR 5183 b, here.
- The Crux reports on circumgalactic gas and the death of galaxies.
- Dead Things notes the import of the discovery of the oldest known Australopithecine skull.
- Dangerous Minds reports on pioneering 1930s queer artist Hannah Gluckstein, also known as Gluck.
- Gizmodo notes that, for an unnamed reason, DARPA needs a large secure underground testing facility for tomorrow.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how Jim Crow laws affected Mexican immigrants in the early 20th century US.
- Language Hat looks at a new project to study Irish texts and language over centuries.
- Language Log shares some Chinglish signs from a top university in China.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money shares an interview with Jeffrey Melnick suggesting Charles Manson was substantially a convenient boogeyman.
- Marginal Revolution shares a paper suggesting marijuana legalization is linked to declining crime rates.
- Susan Neiman at the NYR Daily tells how she began her life as a white woman in Atlanta and is ending it as a Jewish woman in Berlin.
- The Planetary Society Blog looks at Hayabusa2 at Ryugu.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel celebrated the 230th anniversary of Enceladus, the Saturn moon that might harbour life.
- Window on Eurasia notes how global warming is harming the rivers of Siberia, causing many to run short.
Written by Randy McDonald
August 29, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with asteroids, astronomy, atlanta, australopithecus africanus, berlin, blogs, books, california, charles manson, china, chinese language, crime, diaspora, drugs, enceladus, english language, environment, evolution, exoplanets, extraterrestrial life, galaxies, germany, glbt issues, global warming, gluck, hannah gluckstein, health, history, hominids, hr 5183 b, ireland, japan, judaism, language, libraries, links, marijuana, mexico, migration, oceans, oddities, popular culture, popular literature, primates, public art, queer, racism, russia, saturn, siberia, sociology, space science, united states