[BLOG] Some Monday links
Dec. 30th, 2019 12:10 pm- 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.