[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Eddie Chong at anthro{dendum} shares a listing of anthropology-relevant links from around the blogosphere.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog takes a quick look at the sociology of food.


• Joe. My. God. notes that a court ruling making same-sex marriage imaginable has helped an evangelical Christian candidate leap to the front of Costa Rica's presidential elections.


• JSTOR Daily explains the import of President's Day to, among others, non-Americans.


• Language Hat examines the spelling of the Irish word "imbolc" or "imbolg", used to describe a festival marking the start of spring.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money calls for legal enforcement of supply chains for minerals and the like, to ensure that they were not produce through human exploitation (for instance).


• Miranda Vane at the LRB Blog introduces her readers to the northern English sport of Cumberland & Westmorland Wrestling.


• Marginal Revolution highlights the argument of a commenter who argued that self-driving trucks cannot perform on themselves the tasks that human truckers are expected to. (Yet?)


• The NYR Daily examines the transformation of Putin in office from mere oligarch to the world's leading kleptocrat.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw celebrates a new Australian satirical newssite, the Betoota Advocate.


• At the Planetary Society Blog, Emily Lakdawalla notes new findings suggesting some Kuiper belt objects have huge moons, relatively and absolutely.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that while a powerful laser cannot rip up space literally, it can do pretty remarkable things nonetheless.


• Towleroad shares an essay by Cyd Ziegler talking about the importance of gay Atlantis Cruise ships for him, in the light of a scandal onboard a ship involving a fatal drug overdose.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at, among other things, tulip trees and magnolias.

Comments

[sovay]

At the Planetary Society Blog, Emily Lakdawalla notes new findings suggesting some Kuiper belt objects have huge moons, relatively and absolutely.

I named Vanth.

[rfmcdonald]

Oh?

[sovay]

Oh?

Mike Brown, the discovering astronomer, opened his comments to suggestions for the as yet unnamed moon of Orcus. I suggested Vanth first and he liked it. I'm still pretty happy about it.