[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait mourns the death of Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan and calls for a return to the Moon.


• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling wonders what future historiography will look like when it's assumed that British imperialism in South Asia was a bad thing.


• blogTO highlights an impressive new condo tower planned for Mississauga.


• D-Brief looks at how a literal heartbeat can transform the perception of an individual by race.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the potential for exoplanets orbiting red dwarfs to be habitable, finding that there seem to be no deal-breakers.


• Language Hat shares the reflections of Russian-born author Boris Fishman who reads his novel, written in English, translated into the Russian.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money links to a paper looking at the potential for industrial espionage to actually pay off.


• The LRB Blog considers what will happen to Cuban migration now that Cuban migrants to the United States have no special status.


• The NYRB Daily looks at post-revolutionary Cairo through film.


• Savage Minds considers the grounds for potentially treating artificial intelligences as people.


• Torontoist looks at two rival schools of medicine in 19th century Toronto.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes that Washington D.C.'s Freedom Plaza can be cleared of protests.


• Window on Eurasia notes the potential financial catastrophe of Russia's declining villages, and looks at Belarus' national identity.

Comments

[dewline]

Speaking of the last of those blogs: have you got Privacy Badger loaded on your browser of choice? It might be flagging *.gif files of disturbing provenance for me. I don't know how you'd alert the blog's author of potential issues...?

Frankly, I want that blog staying in operation indefinitely. Because the content there is stuff everyone who cares about global politics might actually need to see.