[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer notes the grooves of Phobos, and describes the latest theory behind the formation of this strange feature on the largest Martian moon.


• Centauri Dreams notes the first detection of helium in an exoplanet atmosphere, from hot Neptune HAT-P-11b.


• D-Brief notes how new dating technologies, drawing on artifacts from Toronto sites, reveal that European contact with the Iroquois came at a much later date than previously thought.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that Russia has pushed its plans for a crewed Moon landing back a decade, to 2040.


• Gizmodo notes that the Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down for a couple of years, for repairs and upgrading.


• JSTOR Daily took a look at how forest fires work in Finland, particularly in contrast to those of California.


• Roger Shuy at Lingua Franca notes, looking at a famous American legal case, how the way we ask questions really does matter.


• Marginal Revolution notes, in passing, the economic stagnation of Portugal in the past two decades, with very little growth over this time.


• The NYR Daily shares an interview with the late sociologist Zygmunt Bauman in which he talks about how our era has trivialized evil.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how disagreements between different scientists using different methods to measure the expansion of the universe reveal that, somewhere, something is incorrect. But what?


• Daniel Little at Understanding Society looks at corruption as a sociological phenomenon.


• Arnold Zwicky considers the idea of the ongoing insect apocalypse.

Comments

Russian Moon Landings

[dewline]

2040?

Dammit.