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Window on Eurasia notes the post-Soviet collapse of the numbers of learners of the Russian language, here.

Window on Eurasia reports the claim of a Russian politician that in 1991, securing the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine was a bigger priority than trying for borders changes, here.

Window on Eurasia notes how Belarus cannot protect itself from Russia, here.

Window on Eurasia explains why the Soviet Union let the Armenians and Georgians keep their alphabets, here.

Window on Eurasia explains how Russia's naval and marine power is not doing well, here.

What will become of the Azerbaijani language in education in Iran? More here.

Is a Russia-Belarus state union feasible? More here.

Is Estonia, as some would have it, a viable model for the Finnic Mordvin peoples of the Russian interior? More here.

Will Russia be happy with its alliance with China if this makes it a secondary partner, a relatively weaker exporter of resources? More here.

How many Muslims are there in Moscow, and what import does the controversy over their numbers carry? More here.

Is the Russian fertility rate set to stagnate, leading to long-term sharp decline? More here.

If 10% of the Russian working-age population has emigrated, this has serious consequences for the future of Russia. More here.

Irredentism in Kazakhstan, inspired by the example of Crimea, is just starting to be a thing. More here.

The decline of Russian populations in the north of Kazakhstan, and the growth of Uzbeks, is noteworthy. More here.

The different Russian proposals for the future of the Donbas, an analyst notes, are built to keep Ukraine a neutral country. More here.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at the German city of Nordlingen, formed in a crater created by the impact of a binary asteroid with Earth.

Centauri Dreams reports on the possibility that the farside of the Moon might bear the imprint of an ancient collision with a dwarf planet the size of Ceres.

D-Brief notes that dredging for the expansion of the port of Miami has caused terrible damage to corals there.

Dangerous Minds looks at the last appearances of David Bowie and Iggy Pop together on stage.

The Dragon's Tales notes that China is on track to launch an ambitious robotic mission to Mars in 2020.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog talks about what sociological research actually is.

Gizmodo reports on the discovery of a torus of cool gas circling Sagittarius A* at a distance of a hundredth of a light-year.

io9 reports about Angola Janga, an independent graphic novel by Marcelo D'Salete showing how slaves from Africa in Brazil fought for their freedom and independence.

The Island Review shares some poems of Matthew Landrum, inspired by the Faroe Islands.

Joe. My. God. looks at how creationists are mocking flat-earthers for their lack of scientific knowledge.

Language Hat looks at the observations of Mary Beard that full fluency in ancient Latin is rare even for experts, for reason I think understandable.

Melissa Byrnes wrote at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the meaning of 4 June 1989 in the political transitions of China and Poland.

Marginal Revolution notes how the New York Times has become much more aware of cutting-edge social justice in recent years.

The NYR Daily looks at how the memories and relics of the Sugar Land prison complex outside of Houston, Texas, are being preserved.

Jason C Davis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at the differences between LightSail 1 and the soon-to-be-launched LightSail 2.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks in detail at the high electricity prices in Argentina.

Peter Rukavina looks at the problems with electric vehicle promotion on PEI.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at when the universe will have its first black dwarf. (Not in a while.)

Window on Eurasia suggests that Belarusians are not as interested in becoming citizens of Russia as an Internet poll suggests.

Arnold Zwicky highlights a Pride Month cartoon set in Antarctica featuring the same-sex marriage of two penguins.

D-Brief reports on the abundance of plastic waste found buried in the beaches of the Cocos Islands.

Joe. My. God. notes that the US has imposed tariffs against India.

JSTOR Daily looks at the strange history of phrenology.

Lawyers, Guns and Money takes note of the Trump Administration's honouring of Arthur Laffer.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the electricity price crisis that might determine who gets to be elected president of Argentina.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how the Pauli Exclusion Principle makes matter possible.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy argues against importing the principles of the Berlin Wall to the US-Mexico border.

Window on Eurasia shares concerns that Russia is trying to expand its influence in the east of Belarus.

Architectuul takes a look at "infrastructural scars", at geopolitically-inspired constructions like border fences and fortifications.

Centauri Dreams notes what we can learn from 99942 Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth, just tens of thousands of kilometres away.

D-Brief reports on the reactions of space artists to the photograph of the black hole at the heart of M87.

Dangerous Minds shares the first recording of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart.

The Dragon's Tales notes that Germany has begun work on drafting laws to cover space mining.

Gizmodo reports on what scientists have learned from the imaging of a very recent impact of an asteroid on the near side of the Moon.

io9 makes the case that Star Trek: Discovery should try to tackle climate change.

Joe. My. God. notes that Verizon is seeking a buyer for Tumblr. (Wouldn't it be funny if it was bought, as other reports suggest might be possible, by Pornhub?)

JSTOR Daily reports on a 1910 examination of medical schools that, among other things, shut down all but two African-American medical schools with lasting consequences for African-American health.

Language Log asks why "Beijing" is commonly pronounced as "Beizhing".

Simon Balto asks at Lawyers, Guns and Money why the murder of Justine Ruszczyk by a Minneapolis policeman is treated more seriously than other police killings, just because she was white and the cop was black. All victims deserve the same attention.

Russell Darnley at Maximos62 shares a video of the frieze of the Parthenon.

The NYR Daily responds to the 1979 television adaptation of the Primo Levi novel Christ Stopped at Eboli, an examination of (among other things) the problems of development.

Peter Rukavina is entirely right about the practical uselessness of QR codes.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society points readers towards the study of organizations, concentrating on Charles Perrow.

Window on Eurasia notes the argument of one Russian commentator that Russia should offer to extend citizenship en masse not only to Ukrainians but to Belarusians, the better to undermine independent Belarus.

Arnold Zwicky shares photos of some of his flourishing flowers, as his home of Palo Alto enters a California summer.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes how the warp in space-time made by the black hole in V404 Cygni has been detected.

The Crux reports on the discovery of the remains of a chicha brewery in pre-Columbian Peru.

D-Brief notes a new model for the creation of the Moon by impact with primordial Earth that would explain oddities with the Earth still being molten, having a magma ocean.

Bruce Dorminey shares the idea that extraterrestrial civilizations might share messages with posterity through DNA encoded in bacteria set adrift in space.

The Dragon's Tales reports on progress in drones and UAVs made worldwide.

Gizmodo notes some of the privacy issues involved with Alexa.

JSTOR Daily explains how some non-mammals, including birds and fish, nurse their young.

Language Hat reports on the latest studies in the ancient linguistic history of East Asia, with suggestions that Old Japanese has connections to the languages of the early Korean states of Silla and Paekche but not to that of Koguryo.

Language Log considers the issues involved with the digitization of specialized dictionaries.

Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money remembers the start of the Spanish Civil War.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution points towards his recent interview with Margaret Atwood.

The NYR Daily reports on a remarkable new play, Heidi Schreck's What The Constitution Means To Me.

Towleroad reports on what Hunter Kelly, one of the men who operatives tried to recruit to spread slander against Pete Buttigieg, has to say about the affair.

Window on Eurasia suggests that a Russian annexation of Belarus would not be an easy affair.

Arnold Zwicky reports on the latest signs of language change, this time in the New Yorker.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how the dinosaurs seem to have been killed off 65 million years ago by a combination of geological and astronomical catastrophes.

Centauri Dreams examines Kepler 1658b, a hot Jupiter in a close orbit around an old star.

The Crux reports on the continuing search for Planet Nine in the orbits of distant solar system objects.

D-Brief notes how researchers have begun to study the archaeological records of otters.

Cody Delistraty profiles author and journalist John Lanchester.

Far Outliers reports on the terrible violence between Hindus and Muslims preceding partition in Calcutta.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing suggests the carnival of the online world, full of hidden work, is actually an unsatisfying false carnival.

Hornet Stories reports that São Paulo LGBTQ cultural centre and homeless shelter Casa 1 is facing closure thanks to cuts by the homophobic new government.

io9 reports on one fan's attempt to use machine learning to produce a HD version of Deep Space Nine.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the increasing trend, at least in the United States and the United Kingdom, to deport long-term residents lacking sufficiently secure residency rights.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the literally medieval epidemics raging among the homeless of California.

Marginal Revolution considers how the Book of Genesis can be read as a story of increasing technology driving improved living standards and economic growth.

The NYR Daily interviews Lénaïg Bredoux about #MeToo in France.

The Planetary Society Blog considers the subtle differences in colour between ice giants Uranus and Neptune, one greenish and the other a blue, and the causes of this difference.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle shares beautiful photos of ice on a stream as he talks about his creative process.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers what the universe was like back when the Earth was forming.

Window on Eurasia reports on a statement made by the government of Belarus that the survival of the Belarusian language is a guarantor of national security.

Arnold Zwicky was kind enough to share his handout for the semiotics gathering SemFest20.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the evidence for the massive collision that left exoplanet Kepler 107c an astoundingly dense body.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly tells her readers the secrets of the success of her relationship with her husband, Jose.

Centauri Dreams notes what the New Horizons probe has found out, of Ultima Thule and of Pluto, by looking back.

The Crux shares the obituaries of scientists from NASA for the Opportunity rover.

D-Brief reports that NASA has declared the Opportunity rover's mission officially complete.

Dead Things introduces its readers to Mnyamawamtuka, a titanosaur from Tanzania a hundred million years ago.

Drew Ex Machina shares a stunning photo of Tropical Cyclone Gita, taken from the ISS in 2018.

Far Outliers notes how the Indian Army helped save the British army's positions from collapse in the fall of 1914.

Joe. My. God. notes a Christian group in the United States trying to encourage a boycott of supposedly leftist candy manufacturers like Hershey's.

JSTOR Daily looks at why covenant marriage failed to become popular.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains the hatred for new Congressperson Ilham Omar.

The Planetary Society Blog links to ten interesting podcasts relating to exploration, of Earth and of space.

Drew Rowsome interviews Tobias Herzberg about Feygele, his show in the Rhubarb festival at Buddies in Bad Times.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at the evidence, presented by (among others) Geneviève von Petzinger, suggesting that forty thousand years ago cave artists around the world may have shared a common language of symbols.

Window on Eurasia suggests that the policies of Putin are contributing to a growing sense of nationalism in Belarus.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at stellar nursery NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy.

Centauri Dreams considers what the rings of Saturn indicate about the inner structure, and formation, of Saturn.

The Crux looks at the exciting steam-based robot WINE, capable of travelling between asteroids and hopping around larger worlds like Ceres and Europa with steam.

D-Brief looks at how the colours of the ocean will change over time, some parts becoming bluer and others greener as phytoplankton populations change.

Gizmodo deals critically with the idea that "permatripping" on LSD is possible. At most, the drug might expose underlying issues.

Imageo notes that, even with the polar vortex, cold snaps in North America under global warming have been becoming less cold over time.

JSTOR Daily looks at how Cutex, in the early 1910s, created a new market for manicures.

Language Hat mourns linguist, and fluent speaker of Sumerian, Miguel Civil.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how there is not a centre in American politics to be exploited by the likes of Howard Schultz, that if anything there is an unrepresented left.

Marginal Revolution shares a commenter's argument--misguided, I think--that a wealth tax would represent a violation of privacy rights.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog notes that the InSight probe on Mars has placed the Wind and Thermal Shield above its seismometer.

At Une heure de peine ..., Denis Colombi takes issue with the use of statistics without a deeper understanding as to what they represent.

Window on Eurasia suggests that, while a report that Belarus is investigating the possibility of autocephaly for its national church on the Ukrainian model is likely fake news, it may reflect underlying trends.

Arnold Zwicky points readers towards the enjoyable music of Americana/folk duo Mandolin Orange.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait explains the astounding brilliance of distant quasar J043947.08+163415.7, as bright as ten trillion suns.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers elements of her personal style. (It makes me wonder about revising my own, to be perhaps more flamboyant.)

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber links to a Guardian article of his, imagining a democratic socialist Australia in 2050.

The Dragon's Tales links to Project Lyra, a proposal for a rendezvous mission to 'Oumuamua.

Far Outliers places the Three Gorges Dam construction, and the mass population displacements involved, in the context of a long Chinese history of like relocations.

Gizmodo examines a paper suggesting, based in part on lunar impact rates, an increase in the numbers of asteroids colliding with Earth in the era 300 million years ago.

JSTOR Daily looks at the watchers, the now-forgotten profession of women who would attend to the dying.

The NYR Daily looks at the problems that women encounter in getting their medical concerns taken seriously.

Towleroad writes about sex advisor Alexander Cheves.

Window on Eurasia notes a report that the inhabitants of the Belarus village of Oslyanka, transferred from Russia in 1964, have no wish to be transferred back.

Arnold Zwicky notes the publication of a study of the English auxiliary system begun by his late colleague Ivan Sag.

Bad Astronomer notes the possibility that red dwarf exoplanets might, as AU Microscopii suggests, be made deserts. Centauri Dreams also examines the possibility that red dwarf exoplanets might be starved of volatiles.

The Crux notes the extent to which the formation of our solar system was marked by chaos, planets careening about, looking at other planetary systems for guidance.

D-Brief takes a look at the latest from the endangered Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica.

Joe. My. God. notes that, in the home of the Danforth shooter in Toronto, DVDs from Alex Jones' Infowars were found along with more guns and ammunition.

JSTOR Daily links to a paper suggesting that organic agriculture contributes to a greater extent to climate change than regular agricultural systems.

Lawyers, Guns and Money takes a look at the evolution of the Chinese air force.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog notes that the Hayabusa2 probe is looking for touchdown sites on asteroid Ryugu for sampling.

Roads and Kingdoms considers the humble sabich of Tel Aviv.

Drew Rowsome reviews the Robert Leleux memoir The Memoirs of a Beautiful Boy.

Strange Company shares an old news clipping reporting on the murderous ghost that, in 1914, seems to have haunted the Croguennec family of Brittany.

Window on Eurasia looks at the prospects for a hypothetical future Belarusian Orthodox Church.

At Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Nick Rowe takes a look at the relationship between inflation and the debt/GDP ratio.

Arnold Zwicky looks at the picturesque community of Mollis, in mountainous central Switzerland.

Charlie Stross at Antipope notes the many problems appearing already with 2019, starting with Brexit.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait examines the mysterious AT2018cow event. What was it?

blogTO notes that the Ontario government seems to be preparing for a new round of amalgamation, this time involving Toronto neighbours.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about her strategies for minimizing her personal waste, including buying expensive durables.

D-Brief shares Chang'e-4 photos taken on the far side of the Moon.

Bruce Dorminey notes an innovative design for a steam-powered asteroid hopper.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about verstehen, the process of coming to an understanding of a subject, as demonstrated in the Arlene Stein study Unbound about trans men.

Gizmodo looks at the remarkably complex nascent planetary system of the quarternary star system HD 98800.

Imageo shares a visualization of the terrifyingly rapid spread of the Camp Fire.

JSTOR Daily debunks the myth of Wilson's unconditional support for the Fourteen Points.

Language Hat notes a new study that claims to provide solid grounds for distinguishing dialects from languages.

Language Log looks at what David Bowie had to say about the Internet in 1999, and how he said it.

Christine Gordon Manley writes about her identity as a Newfoundlander.

Marginal Revolution notes the very variable definitions of urbanization in different states of India as well as nationally.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog shares a few more images of Ultima Thule.

Drew Rowsome reviews a new Toronto production of Iphegenia and the Furies.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how a fifth dimension might make the instantaneous spore drive of Discovery possible.

Window on Eurasia links to an article examining eight misconceptions of Russians about Belarus.

Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers what it means to live a kintsugi life.

The Crux looks at the difficulties facing the researches who seek to understand the undeciphered script of the Indus Valley Civilization.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog notes the importance, and relevance, of studying sociological research methods.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing revives from the archives an old article from the 1980s looking at the impact of VCRs on their users.

JSTOR Daily examines the new challenges facing makeup artists in the early Technicolor era of Hollywood in the 1930s.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the economic motives for well-off Chinese households to engage in the footbinding of young women.

Gabrielle Bellot writes at the NYR Daily about a remarkable overlooked work by James Baldwin, the children's book Little Man, Little Man illustrated by Yoran Cazac.

The Planetary Society Blog notes that the Opportunity rover on Mars is still silent, though there is still hope for the robot that could.

The Russian Demographics Blog shares a map examining the distribution of speakers of English in the Russian Federation circa 2010.

Drew Rowsome reviews a collection of the comic horror short stories of Isaac Thorne.

Speed River Journal's Van Waffle meditates on lichen and dogs in the park.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on NGC 1052-DF2, a diffuse galaxy that seems to have been formed in the aftermath of a sort of conflict with dark matter.

The top post of 2018 at Strange Company was this post looking at the mysterious 1911 murder in Indianapolis of German-born doctor Helen Knabe.

John Scalzi at Whatever notes, in response to a recent survey suggesting authors have very low incomes, that most authors have never earned that much.

Window on Eurasia takes a look, in the wake of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, controversy in Belarus over a possible similar move there.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the sheer complexity of the potential options for the United Kingdom with Brexit makes simple strategies--and a simple referendum question--exceptionally difficult.

Arnold Zwicky has an enjoyable rumination starting from a Owen Smith parody of the Edward Hopper painting Nighthawk on the cover of The New Yorker.

Anthro{dendum} considers ways to simulate urgency in simulations of climate change.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait considers what could possibly have led to a Mars crater near Biblis Patera, on Tharsis, having such a flat bottom.

Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog gives readers some tips as to what they should see in New York City.

Centauri Dreams notes some of the early returns sent back by the OSIRIS-REx probe from asteroid Bennu.

The Crux notes the limits of genetic determinism in explaining human behaviour, given the huge influence of the environment on the expression of genes and more.

D-Brief suggests that the rapid global dispersion of the domestic chicken, a bird visibly distinct from its wild counterparts, might make an excellent marker of the Anthropocene millions of years hence.

Bruce Dorminey notes that Comet 46 P/Wirtanen is set to come within a bit more than eleven million kilometres of the Earth next week, and that astronomers are ready.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing suggests that the Internet, by exposing everything, makes actual innovation difficult.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the innovative art of early 20th century Expressionist Charlotte Salomon, a person not only groundbreaking with her autobiographical painting series but linked to a murder mystery, too.

Anne Curzan writes at Lingua Franca about what she has learned in six years about blogging there abut language.

Sara Jayyousi writes at the LRB Blog about her experiences over time with a father imprisoned for nearly a decade and a half on false charges of supporting terrorism.

Marginal Revolution shares Tyler Cowen's argument that Macron's main problem is that he lacks new ideas, something to appeal to the masses.

Sylvain Cypel at the NYR Daily argues that Macron, arguably never that popular, is facing a Marie Antoinette moment, the Yellow Jackets filling the place of the sans culottes.

Drew Rowsome rightly laments the extent to which social media, including not just Facebook but even Tumblr, are currently waging a war against any visible sex in any context.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how, in 2019, astronomers will finally have imaged the event horizon around the black hole Sagittarius A* at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Window on Eurasia reports on polls which suggest that young Belarusians are decidedly apolitical.

Centauri Dreams looks at the latest images of asteroid Bennu provided by the OSIRIS-REx probe.

The Crux notes the impact of genetic research on theories of language among the Neanderthals. If they were, as seems very likely, users of language, did their language use differ from that of homo sapiens sapiens?

D-Brief notes that climate change leads to changes in the microbiology of soils. (What effect would this have on the environment? Unknown, as of yet.)

The Dragon's Tales notes that the Indian aircraft Vikramaditya has just had its second refit completed.

Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the social construction of geography. How are categories created, for instance?

Far Outliers looks at efforts to educate prisoners of war in the Second World War-era United States, to use them even as test-beds for a wider reeducation of their societies.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing, considering the idea of the society of the spectacle of Debord after the thoughts of Foucault, notes the early prediction of a fusion between surveillance and spectacle, of a fusion between the two.

Hornet Stories notes the anti-gay policies of the government of Tanzania government, arguing that country cannot be allowed to be a second Chechnya.

JSTOR Daily notes how the rhetoric of Richard Nixon helped pave the way for Donald Trump.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money argues that even if the Democratic Party loses today's elections in the United States, Americans should still have hope, should still work for a better future. I wish you all luck, myself.

The Map Room Blog looks at Stanford University's archive of the Maps of the Office of Strategic Studies.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining immigrant success in Sweden, noting the complicating picture of general success: Children of more deprived refugees do better than more favoured ones.

The NYR Daily looks at early feminist Ernestine Rose.

Roads and Kingdoms looks at the work of Cambodian architect Dy Preoung, who during the Khmer Rouge era managed to preserve his work on Angkor Wat.

Drew Rowsome looks at the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, focusing on its queer elements.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines how black holes actually do evaporate.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy notes the signal flaws with the argument that migrants should stay at home and fix their country. (What if they have no chance to, for instance?)

Window on Eurasia notes that the West has a vested interest in the survival of Lukashenka in Belarus, if only because a sudden liberalization could well lead to a Russian invasion.

Nick Rowe at the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative takes a look at "bicycle disequilibrium theory".

Centauri Dreams considers the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe to Bennu.

D-Brief notes that the core and the crust of dwarf planet Ceres apparently rotate at different speeds.

Dangerous Minds shares the early glam rock of Rick Springfield.

Gizmodo looks at the discovery of a new, oddly faint, sort of supernova explosion, one that explains how neutron stars can ever be so close as to collide.

JSTOR Daily examines the concept of mana, the mystical power that can be generated by the act of speech.

The LRB Blog considers how humanity will ever be able to address the rising sea, through geoengineering or techniques still more new to us.

Window on Eurasia wonders if Belarus is likely to be the new target of Russian expansionism.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning photos taken by Hubble of distant galaxy cluster RXC J0142.9+4438, three billion light-years away.

The Buzz celebrates the Hugo victory of N.K. Jemisin, and points readers to her various works.

Centauri Dreams links to a paper considering if gravitational wave-producing events might be used as ersatz beacons by hypothetical civilizations hoping to transmit to distant observers of the event.

The Crux considers how we can get the four billion people alive currently without Internet access online.

D-Brief notes that a class of violet aurora known as STEVE is actually not an aurora at all, but a "skyglow" product of a different sort of process.

Far Outliers takes a look at the history of slavery in Mauritius and the nearby and associated Seychelles.

Kieran Healy shares a funny cartoon, "A Field Guide to Social Scientists."

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the story of the stolen children of Argentina, abducted by the military dictatorship, and the fight to find them again.

Language Hat links to an article considering the task faced by some in bringing the novel to Africans, not only creating readerships but creating new readerships in indigenous languages displaced by English and French.

Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money criticizes John McCain in particular connection with the mythology surrounding the POWs and MIA of the United States in the Vietnam War.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel goes through the evidence supporting the idea that our universe must be embedded in a vaster multiverse.

Window on Eurasia notes how Russians have come to recognize Belarusians as a nation separate from their own, if less distinctly separate than Ukrainians.

Arnold Zwicky considers a visual pun inspired by Route 66: Is the image a cartoon?

Anthrodendum takes a look at the way community knowledge is now being subject to a privatization.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlyn Kelly starts a discussion about what makes home.

Bruce Dorminey suggests a pre-Theia, Moon-sized impactor gave the Earth its metal crust.

The Dragon's Gaze looks at the current state of knowledge about Proxima b.

The Dragon's Tales notes that Russia is apparently testing advanced nuclear weapons.

The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas considers the religious impulse in so many technophiles' view of the world.

Language Hat considers the dynamics associated with learning minority languages in Europe.

Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a classic traffic safety clip from 1913.

The LRB Blog mourns the loss of Glen Newey, long-time contributor.

Lovesick Cyborg notes a NASA study into the economics of a viable space-based solar power project.

Roads and Kingdoms takes a look at the açorda of Portugal, a bread-based broth that was a long-time food of the poor.

Cheri Lucas Rowlands celebrates the passage of summer into fall through photos of her vegetable garden.

Drew Rowsome takes a look at the representation of LGBTQ people on television, and sees much reason for cheer.

Science Sushi notes that different dolphin groups seem to have different dialects.

Understanding Society takes a look at Robert Merton's refinement of social functionalism.

Window on Eurasia notes that many ethnic Russians in Belarus, as in Ukraine, have shifted identity to that of the titular nation.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes one mistake made about artificial intelligence: it is not automatically more accurate.

Centauri Dreams considers the idea of dispatching a fleet of sail-equipped probes to map the asteroid belt.

Crux considers the importance of the invention of zero for mathematics.

D-Brief notes that Scotland's oldest snow patch is set to melt imminently.

The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper looking at the stability of multiplanetary systems in star clusters.

Imageo notes the modest recovery of icecaps in the Arctic this summer.

Language Log notes the importance of Kazakhstan's shift to using the Latin script for the Kazakh language.

The LRB Blog reports on a writer's visit to Helsinki.

The Map Room Blog notes a giant relief map of Guatemala, built to reinforce claims to what is now Belize.

The NYR Daily considers the continued salience of race in the fragile liberal-democratic world, in America and Europe.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders if the heavy-handed Spanish government is trying to trigger Catalonian independence.

Roads and Kingdoms considers the palm wine of Senegal, and its vendors.

Understanding Society considers the Holocaust, as an experience sociological and otherwise.

The Volokh Conspiracy makes a libertarian case for open borders.

Whatever's John Scalzi celebrates his meeting mutual fan Alison Moyet.

Window on Eurasia notes how Belarus' cautious Belarusianization is met by Russia's pro-Soviet nostalgia.

Wired features an article talking about what Burning Man, and Black Rock City, teaches us about how cities work.

At The New Republic, Colin Kinniburgh talks about some strategies to fight gentrification, some potentially useful and others not.

Bloomberg View observes that China's Pearl River Delta--briefly, most of urban Guangzhou from Hong Kong up--is set to have a huge property boom.
Bloomberg describes how Algeria, hostile to taking on debt, is going through a period of deep austerity.

Open Democracy looks at how the Belarusian language, despite improvements, is shut out of the country's education system.
This Toronto Star article describing the detritus left by refugees fleeing New York just before they get to Canada is very sad.

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