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rfmcdonald) wrote2017-10-28 12:05 pm
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- astronomy,
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- catalonia,
- ceres,
- cities,
- demographics,
- diaspora,
- disasters,
- east africa,
- economics,
- globalization,
- google,
- links,
- montréal,
- north korea,
- nuclear weapons,
- oceans,
- pacific islands,
- philosophy,
- québec,
- separatism,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- solar system,
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- space science,
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[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the import of comet A/2017U1, a potential visitor from another planetary system, while Centauri Dreams also takes a look.
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly celebrates Montréal's Atwater Market, with photos.
- Bruce Dorminey notes one report that Ceres' primordial ocean may have mixed with its surface, to make a world covered in salty mud.
- The Map Room Blog links to an interactive French-language map looking at census data on different neighbourhoods in different cities.
- The New APPS Blog looks at the changing role of the judiciary as enforcing of order in a privatized world.
- The NYR Daily wonders if North Korea's government has firm control over its nuclear weapons, given American issues.
- The Planetary Society Blog notes the expansion of Google Maps to other worlds in our solar system.
- The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer examines the situation facing Catalonia, and Spain, after the UDI.
- Roads and Kingdoms takes a photographic look at Little Mogadishu, a Somali neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda.
- Rocky Planet notes the ongoing risk of a major volcanic eruption at Tinakula, in the Solomon Islands.
- Understanding Society takes a look at the role and functioning of overlapping social identities.