[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• anthro{dendum} shares an essay by digital ethnographer Gabriele de Seta on the pitfalls of digital ethnography, on the things not said.


• The Boston Globe's The Big Picture shares photos taken in the course of a mission by dentists to provide care to rural Jamaica.


• Centauri Dreams examines the TRAPPIST-1 worlds in depth, finding that TRAPPIST-1e seems to be the relatively most Earth-like world there.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that British banks are cracking down on the use of cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin.


• Gizmodo suggests the Chixculub impactor that killed most of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous may also have played havoc with fragile tectonics of Earth. Responsibility for the Deccan Traps?


• Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders if the Democratic Party risks getting steamrollered over DACA.


• At Lingua Franca, Geoffrey Pullum dissects the claims that an orca capable of mimicking human words can use language. The two are not the same.


• The NYR Daily looks at the origins of the American system of higher education in the wealth generated by slavery.


• Towleroad notes that Bermuda has ended marriage equality. Boycott time?


• David Post at the Volokh Conspiracy is decidedly unimpressed by the behaviour of Devin Nunes.