[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• D-Brief notes that global climate change seems already to have altered the flow of the ocean current system including the Gulf Stream.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the dialect, and cultural forms, of American loggers.


• Taika Waititi, director of (among other movies) Thor: Ragnarok, has created controversy by talking about racism in his native New Zealand. (Good for him, I'd say.) Lawyers, Guns and Money reports.


• Marginal Revolution takes a look at a strange public apology by a Chinese company, and what this says about Chinese politics.


• Strange Maps' Frank Jacobs shared this map depicting the many ephemeral states that appeared in the former Russian Empire after the October Revolution.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes the point that there are very good reasons to believe in dark matter and dark energy, that these concepts are not just a latter-day version of the aether.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the many ways in which the Siberian republic of Tuva is a political anomaly in Russia.


• At Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Frances Woolley uses data from the National Graduates Survey to take a look at student regret in Canadian universities. To what extent does it exist? What disciplines is it concentrated in?