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rfmcdonald ([personal profile] rfmcdonald) wrote2019-04-01 01:38 pm

[BLOG] Some Monday links


  • Bad Astronomy shares Hubble images of asteroid 6478 Gault, seemingly in the process of dissolving.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the experience of living in a body one knows from hard experience to be fallible.

  • Gizmodo notes new evidence that environmental stresses pushed at least some Neanderthals to engage in cannibalism.

  • Hornet Stories notes the 1967 raid by Los Angeles police against the Black Cat nightclub, a pre-Stonewall trigger of LGBTQ organization.

  • Imageo notes the imperfect deal wrought by Colorado Basin states to minimize the pain felt by drought in that river basin.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the cinema of Claire Denis.

  • Language Log reports on the work of linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a man involved in language revival efforts in Australia after work in Israel with Hebrew.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders if the Iran-Contra scandal will be a precedent for the Mueller report, with the allegations being buried by studied inattention.

  • Marginal Revolution makes a case for NIMBYism leading to street urination.

  • Justin Petrone at North! looks at a theatrical performance of a modern Estonian literary classic, and what it says about gender and national identity.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw makes the case for a treaty with Australian Aborigines, to try to settle settler-indigenous relations in Australia.

  • John Quiggin looks at the factors leading to the extinction of coal as an energy source in the United Kingdom.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that we are not yet up to the point of being able to detect exomoons of Earth-like planets comparable to our Moon.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the occasion of the last singer in the Ket language.

  • Arnold Zwicky shares some cartoon humour, around thought balloons.