[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthropology.net shares in the debunking of the Toba catastrophe theory.


• Architectuul features Mirena Dunu's exploration of the architecture of the Black Sea coastal resorts of Romania, built under Communism.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of sleep hygiene and of being well-rested.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the filaments of Orion, indicators of starbirth.


• Centauri Dreams notes how solar sails and the Falcon Heavy can be used to expedite the exploration of the solar system.


• D-Brief notes the discovery of debris marking the massive flood that most recently refilled the Mediterranean on the seafloor near Malta.


• Lucy Ferriss at Lingua Franca uses a recent sickbed experience in Paris to explore the genesis of Bemelmans' Madeline.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money noted recently the 15th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq, trigger of a world-historical catastrophe.


• The LRB Blog hosts Sara Roy's defense of UNRWA and of the definition of the Palestinians under its case as refugees.


• The NYR Daily notes how the regnant conservative government in Israel has been limiting funding to cultural creators who dissent from the nationalist line.


• Roads and Kingdoms uses seven food dishes to explore the history of Malta.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why, even though dark matter is likely present in our solar system, we have not detected signs of it.


• Daniel Little at Understanding Society examines the field of machine learning, and notes the ways in which its basic epistemology might be flawed.


• Window on Eurasia notes how the dropping of the ethnonym "Mongol" from the title of the former Buryat-Mongol autonomous republic sixty years ago still makes some Buryats unhappy.