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rfmcdonald) wrote2015-09-30 07:49 pm
rfmcdonald) wrote2015-09-30 07:49 pm
Entry tags:
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- clash of ideologies,
- demographics,
- disasters,
- economics,
- environment,
- former soviet union,
- genetics,
- germany,
- history,
- human beings,
- language,
- links,
- maps,
- mars,
- nuclear weapons,
- russian language,
- sexuality,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- space travel,
- telecommunications,
- terraforming,
- ukraine,
- united states
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- At Antipope, Charlie Stross starts a discussion about the consequences of satellites getting knocked down. How would a newly satellite-less world cope?
- Centauri Dreams looks at red dwarfs and the challenges of their potentially habitable exoplanets.
- The Dragon's Gaze considers ways to detect the spectral signatures of rocky impacts on young stars.
- The Dragon's Tales considers why nuking Mars in the aim of terraforming will not work.
- Language Hat considers languages with royal and commoner registers.
- Languages of the World starts a consideration of the links between genes and history and language.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the popularity of Planned Parenthood.
- Marginal Revolution thinks the added pollution from the Volkswagen fraud had a trivial negative effect.
- pollotenchegg maps Russian language use in 1926 Ukraine.