[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthrodendum considers the difficulties of the anthropologist in the context of a world where their knowledges are monetized.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about two days she spent in Montréal, with photos.


• Crooked Timber starts a discussion about the justice, or lack thereof, in Harvard denying convicted murderer Michelle Jones entry into their doctoral program now that her sentence is over.


• D-Brief looks at the changing nature of the global disease burden, and its economic consequences.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that Equifax's terribly lax data protection should mark the endgame for them.


• The Map Room Blog considers the use of earth-observer satellites to predict future disease outbreaks (malaria, here, in Peru).


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how quantum mechanics helps explain nuclear fusion in our sun.


• Window on Eurasia notes a report that Muscovites live on average 12 years longer than non-Muscovite Russians.