[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture shares some of the Boston Globe's most noteworthy photos from January.


• Centauri Dreams hosts Larry Klaes' review of the 1972 sci-fi film Silent Running.


• Dangerous Minds reports on a 1988 documentary of a spontaneous street Superbowl party, Show Us Your Belly.


• D-Brief notes evidence that the dependence of pandas on bamboo as a major foodstuff is actually recent, perhaps a consequence of a recent contraction in the territory of the panda.


• Bruce Dorminey reports on one NASA scientist's examination of what we need to do to progress more rapidly in space travel.


• Gizmodo notes that the Parker Solar Probe is heading for another close rendezvous with the Sun.


• JSTOR Daily notes how, in cities, environments like gardens and hotel patios can be used to provide shelter for bees.


• Language Hat looks at some of the unusual names given by Puritan parents to their children in 17th century England.


• The LRB Blog looks at how, in its ongoing state of emergency, France is repressing peaceful protest.


• The Map Room Blog notes how climate zones are shifting as the world climate changes.


• Marginal Revolution notesua how population growth is so much more rapid in the modern developing world than in 19th century Europe, simply because of the lower mortality rates of our era.


• Rocky Planet looks at primordial bodies in our solar system, like asteroids and Kuiper belt objects.


• Mark Simpson looks at how a 1970s BBC comedy show, It Ain't Half Hot, Mum, played with norms of sexuality and gender.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the potentially revolutionary implications if dark energy turns out to not be a constant.


• Window on Eurasia notes that, if nuclear weapons were not involved, Japan could win a naval war with Russia over the Kurils.