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rfmcdonald) wrote2014-08-26 09:36 pm
rfmcdonald) wrote2014-08-26 09:36 pm
Entry tags:
- alaska,
- animal intelligence,
- architecture,
- astronomy,
- australia,
- baltic states,
- blogs,
- china,
- cities,
- demographics,
- economics,
- ethnic conflict,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- glbt issues,
- human rights,
- information,
- ireland,
- japan,
- latin america,
- libraries,
- links,
- lithuania,
- neptune,
- new york city,
- new zealand,
- north caucasus,
- photography,
- photos,
- pluto,
- politics,
- primates,
- religion,
- russia,
- second world war,
- space science,
- space travel,
- suicide,
- television,
- toronto,
- united states,
- war
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- 3 Quarks Daily considers the ethics of suicide.
- Slate's Atlas Obscura blog shares photos of Second World War relics in Alaska's Aleutian islands.
- The Big Picture shares images of Australia's doll hospital.
- blogTO lists five things Toronto could learn from New York City.
- The Dragon's Tales notes China's growing presence in Latin America and observes that apes and hmans share the same kind of empathy.
- Joe. My. God. notes the coming out of an Irish beauty queen.
- Marginal Revolution expects inequality to start growing in New Zealand.
- Discover's Out There looks forward to the new age of exploration of Pluto and the rest of the Kuiper belt.
- The Planetary Society Blog shares beautiful photo mosaics of Neptune from Voyager 2.
- The Search examines in an interview the use of a hundred million photo dataset from Flickr for research.
- Torontoist notes a mayoral debate on Toronto heritage preservation.
- Towleroad observes that a pro-GLBT advertisement won't air on Lithuanian television because of restrictive legislation.
- Window on Eurasia suggests Ukrainian refugees are being resettled in the North Caucasus to bolster Slav numbers and predicts the quiet decline of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine.