[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Dangerous Minds takes note of a robot that grows marijuana.


• The Dragon's Tales has a nice links roundup looking at what is happening with robots.


• Far Outliers notes the differences between the African and Indian experiences in the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and the Seychelles.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing recovers a Paul Goodman essay from 1969 talking about making technology a domain not of science but of philosophy.


• JSTOR Daily notes the mid-19th century origins of the United States National Weather Service in the American military.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the extent to which Jared Kushner is not an amazingly good politician.


• The Map Room Blog notes artist Jake Berman's maps of vintage transit systems in the United States.


• The NYR Daily examines The Price of Everything, a documentary about the international trade in artworks.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw wonders how long the centre will hold in a world that seems to be screaming out of control. (I wish to be hopeful, myself.)


• Drew Rowsome reports on a Toronto production of Hair, 50 years young.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shows maps depicting the very high levels of air pollution prevailing in parts of London.


• Window on Eurasia <a href="http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/01/black-january-in-baku-time-and-place.html'><U>remembers</u></a> Black January in Baku, a Soviet occupation of the Azerbaijani capital in 1990 that hastened Soviet dissolution.</li> </ul>