[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining a potential relationship between stars' magnetic fields and exoplanets.


• Hornet Stories links to the Instagram account of Tom Bianchi, still taking photos of Fire Island.


• Language Hat notes the death of Ognen Cemerski, a Macedonian who went to heroic lengths to translate Moby Dick into his language.


• Language Log notes an unusual hybrid Sino-Tibetan sign for a restaurant.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is appropriately savage with Hillbilly Elegy (at least of uncritical readings of said).


• Marginal Revolutions links to a paper noting French cities, unlike British ones, are much more tightly tied to old Roman settlements, away from the sea.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw calls for the return of the Australian $2 bill.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at the aftermath of rampant electoral fraud in Angola. What will come next?


• Drew Rowsome takes a stand against, particularly in the context of Stephen King's It, the now-common fear of clowns.


• Understanding Society takes a look at Erik Olin Wright's thinking on possible utopias.


• Window on Eurasia notes potential contributions of Russophone Belarusians and Ukrainians to the Russophone world, and notes some controversy in Moscow re: widely-observed Muslim holidays at start of the school year.

Comments

[armiphlage]

I disliked clowns as a child in the 1970s, long before IT came out.