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[BLOG] Some Monday blog links
- Crooked Timber at John Quiggin takes issue with the idea that, now, there are many Republicans who accept Trump only conditionally, for what a Trump presidency could achieve.
- D-Brief notes the XT2 signal, issue of a collision between two magnetars in a galaxy 6.6 billion light-years away.
- Cody Delistraty reports on an exhibit at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris on the history of soccer in world politics.
- Earther reports on a new satellite mission focused on studying solar-induced fluorescence, the glow of plants as they photosynthesize.
- Far Outliers notes how U.S. Grant responded to slaves seeking freedom from the Union Army.
- JSTOR Daily explores Lake Baikal.
- Language Log reports on the multilingualism of Pete Buttigieg.
- Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money gives deserved praise to the Jason Lutes graphic novel Berlin.
- Marginal Revolution looks at the ways in which dense social networks can keep stroke victims from getting quick help.
- The NYR Daily looks at the campaigns and ideas of anti-authoritarian Chinese professor and writer Xu Zhangrun.
- Drew Rowsome gives a largely negative review to the 2014 Easter horror film The Beaster Bunny.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains why the singularities of black holes have spin.
- Window on Eurasia notes on the report of a Muslim community leader in Norilsk that a quarter of the population of that Russian Arctic city is of Muslim background.
- Arnold Zwicky considers the ways in which flowers and penguins and cuteness can interact, with photos.
Written by Randy McDonald
April 22, 2019 at 2:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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