2019-11-01

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2019-11-01 06:03 pm

[NEWS] Ten Halloween links (#halloween)


  • Jamie Bradburn took a look at now-effaced Toronto cemetery Potter's Field, here.

  • Kingston, Ontario's Skeleton Park is a remarkable legacy. Global News reports.

  • CBC Saskatoon reports on the origins of Halloween in harvest events.

  • The Hong Kong protests took on a new tinge this Halloween. CBC reports.

  • The Vancouver tradition of Halloween fireworks may be dying out. The National Post reports.

  • Guardian Cities looks around the world, from Derry to West Hollywood, at local celebrations of Halloween.

  • Gizmodo shares an image of a ghostly collision of galaxies in deep space.

  • Dangerous Minds shared some album covers inspired by Halloween.

  • CBC looks at the very low rate of candy tampering in Canada over the past decade.

  • JSTOR Daily considers how the Great Pumpkin of Peanuts came to be so great.

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2019-11-01 11:51 pm

[BLOG] Some Friday links


  • Architectuul looks, on the 1st of November, at the patterns of light in cemeteries around the world.

  • Bad Astronomy looks at the authentically blue comet C/2016 R2 (Pan-STARRS), here.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares some photos that she took looking around her world, here.

  • Centauri Dreams considers prospects for a Pluto orbiter.

  • Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber considers, in the spirit of A Modest Proposal, whether we should go on from those people who would block migration to rich countries on ecological grounds to start deporting people from rich countries to poorer ones.

  • The Crux looks at which Voyager instruments are still communicating with NASA.

  • D-Brief answers the question of why different bird eggs come in different colours. (Temperature is key.)

  • Bruce Dorminey looks to researchers suggesting that extrasolar Earths will also have lightning, maybe even detectable lightning.

  • Imageo shares a beautiful photo of moonrise at sunrise as seen from the ISS.

  • The Island Review interviews Paul Murton about his visits to different islands and island groups in Scotland.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the Sailor Moon transformation sequence, and its role in toy marketing.

  • Language Hat looks at the origins of the Russian dance cachucha in Cuban Spanish.

  • Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers whether contemporary capitalism is capable of supporting high-quality journalism.

  • Marginal Revolution shares a paper suggesting declining incentives for men to marry are linked to male withdrawal from the labour force.

  • Sean Marshall reports on a bus trip to Ottawa that took him to, among other places, Pembroke.

  • Peter Watts wonders, briefly, what all the fuss is with Meghan Murphy, when so many of her contentions are either wrong or simply irrelevant.

  • The NYR Daily looks at how Brexit has reopened the question of Northern Ireland.

  • The Signal looks at the sorts and volumes of graphics that get requested from its archives.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at what we have learned from interstellar comets 'Oumuamua and Borisov.

  • Window on Eurasia warns that Central Asia's Lake Issyk-Kul, like the Aral Sea, might also dry up.