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rfmcdonald) wrote2017-05-18 11:43 am
rfmcdonald) wrote2017-05-18 11:43 am
Entry tags:
- africa,
- blogs,
- dovercourt road,
- east africa,
- english language,
- european union,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- former soviet union,
- history,
- islam,
- jane jacobs,
- language,
- links,
- north caucasus,
- oceans,
- photos,
- racism,
- refugees,
- religion,
- russia,
- saturn,
- senegal,
- space science,
- toronto,
- ukraine,
- united kingdom,
- united states,
- west africa
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- The Big Picture shares photos of the South Sudanese refugee exodus into Uganda.
- blogTO shares an ad for a condo rental on Dovercourt Road near me, only $1800 a month.
- Centauri Dreams reports on the idea of using waste heat to detect extraterrestrial civilizations.
- Crooked Timber uses the paradigm of Jane Jacobs' challenge to expert in the context of Brexit.
- The LRB Blog reports on the fishers of Senegal and their involvement in that country's history of emigration.
- The Planetary Society Blog shares an image comparing Saturn's smaller moons.
- The Volokh Conspiracy comes out in support of taking down Confederate monuments.
- Window on Eurasia suggests Chechens are coming out ahead of Daghestanis in the North Caucasus' religious hierarchies, and argues that Putin cannot risk letting Ukraine become a model for Russia.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at various bowdlerizations of Philip Larkin's famous quote about what parents do to their children.