[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 'Nathan Burgoine at Apostrophen links to a giveaway of paranormal LGBT fiction.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares some stunning photos of Jupiter provided by Juno.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly looks at the desperate, multi-state strike of teachers in the United States. American education deserves to have its needs, and its practitioners' needs, met.


• Centauri Dreams looks at PROCSIMA, a strategy for improving beamed propulsion techniques.


• Crooked Timber looks at the history of the concept of the uncanny valley. How did the concept get translated in the 1970s from Japan to the wider world?


• Dangerous Minds shares a 1980s BBC interview with William Burroughs.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper tracing the origin of the Dravidian language family to a point in time 4500 years ago.


• JSTOR Daily notes Phyllis Wheatley, a freed slave who became the first African-American author in the 18th century but who died in poverty.


• Language Hat notes the exceptional importance of the Persian language in early modern South Asia.


• Language Log looks at the forms used by Chinese to express the concepts of NIMBY and NIMBYism.


• Language Hat notes the exceptional importance of the Persian language in early modern South Asia.


• The NYR Daily notes that, if the United States junks the nuclear deal with Iran, nothing external to Iran could realistically prevent the country's nuclearization.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the latest findings from the Jupiter system, from that planet's planet-sized moons.


• Roads and Kingdoms notes that many Rohingya, driven from their homeland, have been forced to work as mules in the illegal drug trade.


• Starts With A Bang considers how early, based on elemental abundances, life could have arisen after the Big Bang. A date only 1 to 1.5 billion years after the formation of the universe is surprisingly early.


• Strange Maps' Frank Jacobs notes how the centre of population of different tree populations in the United States has been shifting west as the climate has changed.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little takes a look at mechanisms and causal explanations.


• Worthwhile Canadian Initiative's Frances Woolley takes a look at an ECON 1000 test from the 1950s. What biases, what gaps in knowledge, are revealed by it?

Comments

[armiphlage]

Nuclear weapons are three-quarter-century old technology. Modern knowledge and technology just makes their manufacture safer and cheaper.