[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber shares a John Quiggin blog post, originally from 2004, in which he considers the static nature of popular culture.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on a study of the rotating Luhman 16 brown dwarfs.


• The Dragon's Tales examines the archeology of the Mayans and of Amazonia.


• Far Outliers looks at the rise and fall of Baku as a capital of world oil.


• Language Log notes at the misogyny implicit in the construction of some Chinese characters.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at this climate change Christmas.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers the new official names for various exoplanets.


• Transit Toronto notes the three-year anniversary of an online TTC simulator.


• The Volokh Conspiracy considers political ignorance on left and right.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Chechnya is nearly independent already and looks at non-productive Russian reactions to the ongoing collapse in the number of speakers of the Russian language.