[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthropology net reports on the unveiling of Little Foot, a 3.6 million year old australopithecus skeleton.


• The Big Picture unveiled remarkable photos of the ongoing wildfires in southern California.


• Centauri Dreams shares a suggestion of Jim Benford suggesting we are not transmitting loudly enough to be picked up across interstellar distances.


• D-Brief notes the discovery of genes which appear to have some relationship to sexual orientation variation among human men.


• Daily JSTOR notes how DNA evidence can lead to false convictions.


• The Dragon's Tales shares some links about extrasolar visitor 'Oumuamua.


Joe. My. God. notes that an opposite-sex couple in Australia who promised to divorce on the advent of marriage equality have opted not to. Surprise, surprise.

• The Map Room Blog shares some maps examining the possibility of an electoral upset in the Alabama Senate race.


• Marginal Revolution points out the extent to which Chicago was a huge boomtown in the 19th century.


• The NYR Daily shares the proletarian art--literally--of Chaïm Soutine.


• Out There takes a look at how our ill treatment of gorillas bodes ill for our treatment of hypothetical less advanced aliens.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Moscow, without restrictions on urban migration, is starting to develop ethnic neighbourhoods. (I think this natural, and fundamentally a good thing, unlike the source.)


• Arnold Zwicky shares a report of a 1971 jam session of John Lennon with Frank Zappa.

Comments

[dewline]

As you and I have experienced - admittedly through a lens of privilege - ethnic neighbourhoods aren't necessarily doomed to become ghettos.

[armiphlage]

Ethnic neighbourhoods are also important in building up a critical mass of customers to support ethnic restaurants, bookstores, and movie theatres. If treated properly and encouraged to flourish (instead of being torn down, as in Toronto's first Chinatown), they help build a diverse and vibrant city.