[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Architectuul looks at the Porto architectural project Critical Concrete, here.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares the evidence for our galaxy having experienced a phase as a quasar a quarter-million years long some 3.5 million years ago.


• Author James Bow celebrates the end of his publicity tour for The Night Girl, including a controversy over cover art featuring the CN Tower.


• Robert Zubrin at Centauri Dreams considers how we could detect energy from artificial singularities used for power and propulsion. (Is this how we find the Romulans?)


• The Crux considers whether or not the new proposals for more powerful supercolliders in China and Europe are likely to produce new discoveries.


• D-Brief explains why older generations so often look down on the young: The elders idealize their younger selves too much.


• Dead Things notes new evidence, in the tracks of trilobites moving in line 480 million years ago, for early life being able to engage in collective behaviour.


• io9 interviews Kami Garcia about her new YA book featuring venerable DC character Raven, remaking her for new readers.


• The Island Review interviews David Gange about The Frayed Atlantic Edge, his book account of his kayak trip down the western coasts of Britain and Ireland.


• JSTOR Daily explains why Martin Luther King Jr. thought so highly of jazz.


• Eleanor Penny argues at the LRB Blog against taking Malthus, with his pessimism trending towards a murderous misanthropy, as a prophet for our times.


• The NYR Daily looks at the play American Moor, which touches on the efforts of black actors to engage with Shakespeare.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the new film The Flick, an old to old-style movies and theatres.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a map depicting Hutterite migrations across early modern Europe.


• Starts With A Bang shares new speculation that some evidence for dark matter might actually be a mistake in measurement.


• Strange Maps notes the now mostly submerged continent of Greater Adria.


• Window on Eurasia shares a suggestion that the deep Russophilia of many ordinary people in Belarus might support union with Russia.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at the different meanings of "unaccompanied".

Comments

[sovay]

Dead Things notes new evidence, in the tracks of trilobites moving in line 480 million years ago, for early life being able to engage in collective behaviour.

Thank you!