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Sep. 15th, 2019
[BLOG] Some Sunday links
Sep. 15th, 2019 10:10 am- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how variable gravity is on irregular asteroid Bennu.
- Bruce Dorminey reports on how the European Southern Observatory has charted the Magellanic Clouds in unprecedented detail.
- The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links looking at the Precambrian Earth.
- Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina reports on the late 1950s race to send probes to the Moon.
- Gizmodo shares some stunning astronomy photos.
- JSTOR Daily reports on the saltwater roads, the routes that slaves in Florida used to escape to the free Bahamas.
- Language Log looks at some examples of bad English from Japan. How did they come about?
- Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money rejects the idea of honouring people like Condoleezza Rice.
- Marginal Revolution considers the idea of free will in light of neurology.
- Corey S Powell at Out There interviews James Lovelock on his new book Novacene, in which Lovelock imagines the future world and Gaia taken over by AI.
- Window on Eurasia notes the water shortages faced by downstream countries in Central Asia.
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- blogTO notesa corner of Etobicoke, bounded by Bloor and Kipling and the Queensway and Islington, is now being banded as the neighbourhood of EtobiCo.
- Sully's Boxing Gym, once a neighbour of mine on Dupont, is now on Dundas Street West. blogTO reports.
- Sean Marshall takes a look at the problems of Don Mills Road for people not in cars, here.
- The Toronto Star explains a new study exploring why more people in the city do not bike to work, here.
- The sort of landlord-tenant conflict and mistrust described here cannot contribute to a productive city. The Toronto Star reports.
- The Confederation LRT line, happily, has opened in Ottawa. Global News reports.
- Dorchester Square in Montréal will feature an open-air gallery for emerging artists. CTV reports.
- How, exactly, will the crane that collapsed in Halifax in Dorian be removed? CBC reports.
- Guardian Cities tells the story of how Gypsies in Perpignan resisted gentrification, here.
- Atlas Obscura reports on the summer custom, in Helsinki, of families cleaning their carpets with salt water on piers.
- Enzo DiMatteo suggests at NOW Toronto that Ford wants Scheer to lose, so Ford will have a chance with the federal Conservatives, here.
- Jonathan Montpetit writes at CBC Montreal about the conservative nationalism that has become mainstream in Québec under the CAQ, here.
- Robyn Urback writes at the CBC about the failure of the NDP under Jagmeet Singh to capitalize on the weakness of the two dominant parties, here.
- I do think that the rumoured connections of Prince Andrew to the Epstein network could easily become a huge unexpected crisis for the British royal family. VICE reports.
- Max Fawcett at MacLean's is probably right to note that, to be taken seriously, Alberta should stop voting Conservative. His arguments are here.
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- Universe Today looks at the impressive Internet speed of the ISS, 600 megabits a second, here.
- The National Observer reports on how the infrastructure of the Maritimes will need to be able to handle climate change, here.
- Wired reports on the partially successful effort in China to use CRISPR to cure HIV, here.
- Technology Review looks at how machine learning can be used to translate lost languages and unknown scripts, like Linear A, here.
- Atlas Obscura reports on how the Trabant car of East Germany keeps its fanbase, here.