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[LINK] Some Friday links
Jan. 29th, 2010 10:05 am- 80 Beats shares the good news that humanity's shift from analog to digital television transmissions is making us invisible to extraterrestrial civilizations.
- blogTO's Derek wonders if Adam Giambrone's video will work in gaining him support. The consensus seems to be that it will help, but he needs to cobble the right policies together.
- Centauri Dreams discusses plans to construct systems for defending Earth against asteroid impact, and the various methods that could be used.
- Will Baird suggests that some charred dinosaur fossils recently found in China might be the legacy of the K-T extinction event.
- At Everyday Sociology, Janis Prince Inniss describes how African-Americans--and presumably other groups in the African diaspora--often divide themselves along lines of shade, the whiter shades being "better," in a refraction of anti-black racism.
- Global Sociology has a graphic showing inequality in the OECD. The United States doesn't do well, but Canada doesn't do that much better.
- At Halfway Down the Danube, Douglas Muir writes about the many ways in which Tanzania seems to be a functioning society, from civil service to civil society.
- Invisible College's Richard wonders how useful the ICJ indictment of Sudan's Bashir actually is.
- Could the Republican Party have become the party of civil rights in the US? Noel Maurer comes up with something that suggests it was at least possible.
- Slap Upside the Head lets us know about a New Hampshire state legislator who says that the state is selling children to same-sex couples, i.e. allowing them to be adopted out.
- Strange Maps links to a map showing the hidden green spaces of San Francisco.
- Towleroad reports on a study suggesting that half of San Francisco-area same-sex couples are openly non-monogamous.
- Zero Geography shows the religious geography of the world via Google searches, among other maps.
