[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthro{dendum}'s Adam Fish looks at the phenomenon of permissionless innovation as part of a call for better regulation.


• James Bow shares excerpts from his latest book, The Cloud Riders.


• Bruce Dorminey notes how data from Voyager 1's cosmic ray detectors has been used to study dark matter.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money begins a dissection of what Roe vs Wade meant, and means, for abortion in the United States, and what its overturn might do.


• Ilan Stavans, writing for Lingua Franca at the Chronicle, considers the languages of the World Cup. The prominence of Spanish in the United States is particularly notable.


• The LRB Blog gathers together articles referencing the now-departed Boris Johnson. What a man.


• The Map Room Blog reports/u> on Matthew Blackett's remarkably intricate transit map of Canada.


• Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution links to a study from Nature exploring how shifts in the definition of concepts like racism and sexism means that, even as many of the grossest forms disappear, racism and sexism continue to be recognized if in more minute form.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how a Japanese experiment aimed at measuring proton decay ended up inaugurating the era of neutrino astronomy, thanks to SN1987A.


• Window on Eurasia reports on how a Russian proposal to resettle Afrikaner farmers from South Africa to the North Caucasus (!) is, unsurprisingly, meeting with resistance from local populations, including non-Russian ones.


• Linguist Arnold Zwicky takes a look at how, exactly, one learns to use the F word.