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rfmcdonald) wrote2017-06-21 11:58 am
rfmcdonald) wrote2017-06-21 11:58 am
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- economics,
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- queen street west,
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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith talks about "cis", "trans", and the non-obvious meaning of this classification.
- The Big Picture shares photos of a recent sailing festival in Boston.
- blogTO reports on the trendy charcoal-black ice cream of a store across from Trinity Bellwoods.
- Centauri Dreams considers the idea of a "runaway fusion" drive.Crooked Timber wonders how a bad Brexit agreement could possibly be worse than no Brexit agreement for the United Kingdom.
- D-Brief warns of the possibility of sustained life-threatening heat waves in the tropics with global warming.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog considers how sociology majors are prepared, or not, for the workforce.
- Language Hat links to a wonderful examination of the textual complexities of James Joyce's Ulysses.
- The LRB Blog looks at how British big business is indebted to the Conservatives.
- Marginal Revolution reports on China's emergent pop music machine.
- Steve Munro reports on the latest on noise from the 514 Cherry streetcar.
- The NYRB Daily has a fascinating exchange on consciousness and free will and where it all lies.
- The Planetary Society Blog reports on a successful expedition to Argentina to examine Kuiper Belt object MU69 via occultation.
- Peter Rukavina celebrates Charlottetown school crossing guard Dana Doyle.