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rfmcdonald) wrote2018-10-24 01:29 pm
rfmcdonald) wrote2018-10-24 01:29 pm
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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Centauri Dreams notes the lack of evidence for heat plumes around the Europan crater of Pwyll.
- Patrick Nunn at The Crux writes about the new evidence for the millennias-long records preserved remarkably well in oral history.
- D-Brief notes the discovery of a two-year cycle in gamma ray output in blazar PG 1553+113.
- Bruce Dorminey notes a proposal from French astronomer Antoine Labeyrie to create a low-cost hypertelescope in nearby space.
- Gizmodo interviews experts on the possibility of whether people who are now cryogenically frozen will be revived. (The consensus is not encouraging for current cryonicists.)
- JSTOR Daily notes how, looking back at old records, we can identify many veterans of the US Civil War suffering from the sorts of psychological issues we know now that military veterans suffer from.
- Language Hat notes the beauty of two stars' Arabic names, Zubeneschamali and Zubenelgenubi, beta and alpha Librae.
- The LRB Blog takes a look at the encounters of Anthony Burgess with the Russian language.
- Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution is surprised that Canada has allowed China to add deep-sea sensors to its deep-sea observatories in the Pacific, in a geopolitically-concerned American way.
- Tim Parks at the NYR Daily talks about the importance of translation, as a career that needs to be supported while also needing critiques.
- Drew Rowsome takes a look at two shows on young people coming out, the web series It's Complicated and the documentary Room to Grow.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that the evidence of the existence of a potential Planet Nine in our solar system is not necessarily that strong.
- Strange Maps shares a map of Europe in 1920, one oriented towards Americans, warning of famine across a broad swathe of the continent including in countries now no longer around.
- Window on Eurasia notes that, in multiethnic Dagestan, Russian has displaced other local languages as a language of interethnic communication.
- Arnold Zwicky announces the creation, at his blog via the sharing of a Liz Climo cartoon, of a new category at his blog relating to pandas.