[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams extends further consideration the roles that artificial intelligences might play in interstellar exploration.


• D-Brief notes that the genes associated with being a night owl also seem to be associated with poor mental health outcomes.


• Far Outliers looks at the lifeboat system created on the upper Yangtze in the late 19th century.


• Kashmir Hill, writing at Gizmodo, notes how blocking Google from her phone left her online experience crippled.


• Imageo notes that, even if halted, global warming still means that many glaciers well melt as they respond to temperature changes.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the racism that permeated ads in 19th century North America.


• Language Hat looks at how some Turkish-speaking Christians transcribed the Turkish language in the Greek alphabet.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how utterly ineffective the Trump Administration's new refugee waiver system actually is.


• The LRB Blog looks at the film and theatre career of Lorenza Mazetti.


• Marginal Revolution notes, in passing, the import of being a YouTube celebrity.


• Molly Crabapple at the NYR Daily writes about the work of the New Sanctuary coalition, which among other things waits with refugees in court as they face their hearings.


• The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle looks for traces of the elusive muskrat.


• Towleroad shares footage of New Order performing the early song "Ceremony" in 1981.


• Transit Toronto notes that Metrolinx now has an app for Presto up!


• At Vintage Space, Amy Shira Teitel looks at the Soviet Moon exploration program in 1969.


• Window on Eurasia notes the new pressures being placed by rising Islamism and instability in Afghanistan upon Turkmenistan.


• Arnold Zwicky considers, briefly, the little is known about the lives of 1980s gay porn stars Greg Patton and Bobby Pyron. How did they lead their lives?

Comments

[armiphlage]

I hope the Presto app works better than the Presto-activated subway gates.