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[BLOG] Some Friday links
Feb. 23rd, 2018 01:46 pm- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait tells us what tantalizing little is known about Proxima Centauri and its worlds.
- Centauri Dreams imagines that, for advanced civilizations based on energy-intensive computing, their most comfortable homes may be in the cool dark of space, intergalactic space even.
- D-Brief notes an effort to predict the evolution of stick insects that went in interesting, if substantially wrong, directions.
- Mark Graham notes that, in the developing world, the supply of people willing to perform digital work far outweighs the actual availability of jobs.
- Mathew Ingram announces that he is now chief digital writer for the Columbia Journalism Review.
- JSTOR Daily explores how consumerism was used, by the United States, to sell democracy to post-war West Germany.
- Language Hat explores the script of the Naxi, a group in the Chinese Himalayas.
- Paul Campos considers at Lawyers, Guns and Money the importance of JK Galbraith's The Affluent Society. If we are richer than ever before and yet our living standards are disappointing, is this not the sort of political failure imagined?
- Russell Darnley takes a look at how the death of a community's language can lead to the death of that community's ecosystem.
- Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog considers the possibility of the ISS being replaced by privately-owned space stations.
- Dmitry Ermakov at Roads and Kingdoms shares some photos from his ventures among the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia.
- Peter Rukavina shares a black-and-white photo of Charlottetown harbour covered in ice.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes the point that cancelling NASA's WFIRST telescope would kneecap NASA science.
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