[LINK] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 80 Beats shares the good news that humanity's shift from analog to digital television transmissions is making us invisible to extraterrestrial civilizations.


• blogTO's Derek wonders if Adam Giambrone's video will work in gaining him support. The consensus seems to be that it will help, but he needs to cobble the right policies together.


• Centauri Dreams discusses plans to construct systems for defending Earth against asteroid impact, and the various methods that could be used.


• Will Baird suggests that some charred dinosaur fossils recently found in China might be the legacy of the K-T extinction event.


• At Everyday Sociology, Janis Prince Inniss describes how African-Americans--and presumably other groups in the African diaspora--often divide themselves along lines of shade, the whiter shades being "better," in a refraction of anti-black racism.


• Global Sociology has a graphic showing inequality in the OECD. The United States doesn't do well, but Canada doesn't do that much better.


• At Halfway Down the Danube, Douglas Muir writes about the many ways in which Tanzania seems to be a functioning society, from civil service to civil society.


• Invisible College's Richard wonders how useful the ICJ indictment of Sudan's Bashir actually is.


• Could the Republican Party have become the party of civil rights in the US? Noel Maurer comes up with something that suggests it was at least possible.


• Slap Upside the Head lets us know about a New Hampshire state legislator who says that the state is selling children to same-sex couples, i.e. allowing them to be adopted out.


• Strange Maps links to a map showing the hidden green spaces of San Francisco.


• Towleroad reports on a study suggesting that half of San Francisco-area same-sex couples are openly non-monogamous.


• Zero Geography shows the religious geography of the world via Google searches, among other maps.