[BLOG] Some Sunday links
Aug. 18th, 2019 12:15 pm- Saira Mehmood blogs at {anthro}dendum about her experiences as an ethnographer in her New Orleans community.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait blogs about Supernova 2016iet, a rare example of a pair-instability supernova.
- At the Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly writes about the need of people to avoid isolation.
- Centauri Dreams notes that future astronomers might be able to detect the fluorescence of life on exoplanets during flares.
- Why, Crooked Timber asks, shouldn't children be given the vote?
- D-Brief notes scientists have manufactured a ring of carbon atoms.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the complexities of #VanLife in the United States, at once a lifestyle choice in the US and a response to poverty.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money is decidedly unimpressed by the recent rewriting of the Statue of Liberty.
- Neuroskeptic looks at how neuroimaging studies study surprisingly few left-handers, and how this is a problem.
- The NYR Daily looks at how Big Data in China is enhancing state power, concentrating on the situation in Xinjiang.
- Drew Rowsome looks at a new documentary on the genesis of Fiddler on the Roof, Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how dark matter and black holes can interact.
- Arnold Zwicky takes a look at coded anti-black racism in the 1937 United States.