Dec. 30th, 2019

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  • Architectuul looks back at some highlights from 2019.

  • Bad Astronomy looks at the gas cloud, red and green, of RCW 120.

  • Crooked Timber looks at the dynamics of identity politics, here.

  • Bruce Dorminey notes a NASA statement about the importance of understanding dust dynamics in other solar systems to find Earth analogues.

  • Far Outliers looks at the problems pacifying the Chesapeake Bay area in 1813, here.

  • Gizmodo looks at the most popular Wikipedia articles for the year 2019.

  • io9 shares a video of images from a 1995 Akira cyberpunk computer game that never got finished.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at how the United States tried to "civilize" the Inupiat of Alaska by giving them reindeer herds.

  • Language Hat links to an online atlas of Scots dialects.

  • Language Log reports on a 12th century Sanskrit inscription that testifies to the presence of Muslims in Bengal at that point.

  • Marginal Revolution notes how much Tuvalu depends on revenue from its .tv Internet domain.

  • Drew Rowsome looks at the Duncan Ralston horror novel Salvage, set in small-town Canada.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog looks at the strong relationship between wealth and life expectancy in France.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, in a hypothetical supernova, all life on an Earth-like planet would be boiled alive by neutrinos.

  • Strange Maps links to a graphic interface that translates a word into all the languages of Europe.

  • Understanding Society looks at the structures of high-reliability organizations.

  • Window on Eurasia shares a suggestion that Homer Simpson is actually the US' version of Russia's Ivan the Fool.

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  • Marginal Revolution features a critical if friendly review of the new Emmanuel Todd book, Lineages of Modernity.

  • Marginal Revolution considers the problems of excessive consumer activism, here.

  • Marginal Revolution notes a new book looking at natural gas economics in Europe, here.

  • Marginal Revolution notes new evidence that YouTube algorithms do not tend to radicalize users, here.

  • Marginal Revolution notes the few countries where the average person was richer in 2009 than in 2019, notably Greece and Venezuela.

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  • JSTOR Daily provides advice for users of Zotero and Scrivener, here.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at instances where product placement in pop culture went badly, here.

  • JSTOR Daily considers the import of a pioneering study of vulgar language in the context of popular culture studies, here.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the--frankly terrible--policies of managing rival heirs in the Ottoman dynasty, here.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at generational divides on religion in the England of the early Protestant Reformation, here.

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  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the question of Betelgeuse going supernova, here.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers how black holes might, or might not, spit matter back out, here.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes a report suggesting the local excess of positrons is product not of dark matter but of nearby pulsar Geminga, here.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel lists some of the most distant astronomical objects so far charted in our universe, here.

  • The question of whether or not a god did create the universe, Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang suggests, remains open.

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