[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams considers the concept of "arrival", drawn from Naipaul, in connection with interstellar flight.


• The Crux takes a look at the investigation and treatment of the tumour-causing virus besetting Tasmanian devils, and its implications for us.


• D-Brief notes the strangeness of the supermassive black hole at the heart of ultra-compact dwarf galaxy Fornax UCD3, and notes a newly-theorized way that stellar-mass black holes can gain more mass, through the intake of gas while orbiting a supermassive black hole.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the concept of trial by combat, and the many crimes that this judicial concept enabled.


• Geoffrey Pullum at Lingua Franca looks at the obscure English grammar questions that are so prominent in English language learning in Japan.


• The LRB Blog notes the disappearance of apolitical Uighur academic Rahile Dawut from her home in Xinjiang, and what her disappearance signals.


• The NYR Daily considers the concept of deradicalization in connection with white people, with white nationalists inspired towards racial violence.


• Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy does not find originalist grounds on which to criticize the creation of a US Space Force.


• Window on Eurasia notes a tension in Russia between official government support for immigration, particularly from elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, and local resistance.


• Arnold Zwicky meditates on rainbows and sharks and gay dolphins.

Comments

Immigration and Russia

[dewline]

Even as the people currently running their government use this as a wedge issue to keep our society perpetually off-kilter, they're no less vulnerable to the same nonsense at home. Something sick and weird about that, isn't there?