[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Dragon's Tales notes that Raytheon has been awarded a contract to deliver a 100 kilowatt laser weapon system.


• Hornet Stories offers a guide to LGBTQ sites in Manila.


• JSTOR Daily explores the writing career of mid-20th century SF writer "James Tiptree Jr", the pseudonym of Alice Bradley Sheldon.


• Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money explores the idea of a liberal world order, particularly as a manifestation of American policy post-1945.


• Ben Yagoda at Lingua Franca takes a look at how Big Data--specifically, large archives of the written word--can illuminate lots about patterns of language usage, noting some examples.


• The Map Room Blog looks at the way that maps of population density are being used in the United States to legitimate or delegitimate specific groups of voters.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen considers the concept of "reciprocity anxiety", of owing people.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer reports on some swear words in Argentine Spanish as well as a case of government expropriation of Mapuche lands.


• Drew Rowsome takes an extended look at Scotty and the Secret Life of Hollywood, an extended documentary looking at the life of scotty Bowers in closeted 20th century Hollywood.

Comments

[dewline]

1. Well, that's Canadian independence mooted.

6. Not sure what to make of any of that yet.