rfmcdonald | Entries tagged with biology

JSTOR Daily considers whether koalas are actually going extinct, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at the life and accomplishments of Alexander Von Humboldt, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at how a move to California doomed the Oneida Community, here.

JSTOR Daily considers how the genetically diverse wild relatives of current crops could help our agriculture, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at the devastating flood of Florence in 1966, here.

JSTOR Daily points out there is no template for emotional intelligence, here.

JSTOR Daily explores some remarkable lumpy pearls, here.

JSTOR Daily notes an 1870 scare over the future of men, here.

JSTOR Daily reports on the staging of war scenes for the 1945 documentary The Battle of San Pietro, here.

JSTOR Daily considers the bioethics of growing human brains in a petri dish, here.

Ryan Anderson at anthro{dendum} looks at the unnatural history of the beach in California, here.

Architectuul looks at the architectural imaginings of Iraqi Shero Bahradar, here.

Bad Astronomy looks at gas-rich galaxy NGC 3242.

James Bow announces his new novel The Night Girl, an urban fantasy set in an alternate Toronto with an author panel discussion scheduled for the Lillian H. Smith Library on the 28th.

Centauri Dreams looks at the indirect evidence for an exomoon orbiting WASP-49b, a possible Io analogue detected through its ejected sodium.

Crooked Timber considers the plight of holders of foreign passports in the UK after Brexit.

The Crux notes that astronomers are still debating the nature of galaxy GC1052-DF2, oddly lacking in dark matter.

D-Brief notes how, in different scientific fields, the deaths of prominent scientists can help progress.

Bruce Dorminey notes how NASA and the ESA are considering sample-return missions to Ceres.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at the first test flights of the NASA Mercury program.

The Dragon's Tales looks at how Japan is considering building ASAT weapons.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at the first test flights of the NASA Mercury program.

Far Outliers looks how the anti-malarial drug quinine played a key role in allowing Europeans to survive Africa.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox considers grace and climate change.

io9 reports on how Jonathan Frakes had anxiety attacks over his return as Riker on Star Trek: Picard.

JSTOR Daily reports on the threatened banana.

Language Log looks at the language of Hong Kong protesters.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how a new version of The Last of the Mohicans perpetuates Native American erasure.

Marginal Revolution notes how East Germany remains alienated.

Neuroskeptic looks at the participant-observer effect in fMRI subjects.

The NYR Daily reports on a documentary looking at the India of Modi.

Corey S. Powell writes at Out There about Neptune.

The Planetary Society Blog examines the atmosphere of Venus, something almost literally oceanic in its nature.

Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money considers how Greenland might be incorporated into the United States.

Rocky Planet notes how Earth is unique down to the level of its component minerals.

The Russian Demographics Blog considers biopolitical conservatism in Poland and Russia.

Starts With a Bang's Ethan Siegel considers if LIGO has made a detection that might reveal the nonexistence of the theorized mass gap between neutron stars and black holes.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at Marchetti's constant: People in cities, it seems, simply do not want to commute for a time longer than half an hour.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at how the US Chemical Safety Board works.

Window on Eurasia reports on how Muslims in the Russian Far North fare.

Arnold Zwicky looks at cannons and canons.

JSTOR Daily looks at how early 20th century Americans facing underemployment and persecution under vagrancy laws organized themselves, ultimately creating the Hobo College of Chicago.

JSTOR Daily explains how the green that we think we see in the feathers of some birds actually is not really there.

JSTOR Daily looks at how the Napoleonic Wars helped transform the linen industry in Ireland, not least by drawing women into the workforce.

JSTOR Daily looks at how Frank Lloyd Wright was decidedly unhappy with the mass produced Taliesin Line of homewares made in the 1950s.

JSTOR Daily looks at the amazing potential of artificial photosynthesis, particularly as a source of fuel.

D-Brief examines the importance of the microbiome in human beings.

D-Brief observes that the genetic engineering of two twins in China to make them resistant to HIV might also shorten their lifespans.

The poaching of elephants, happily, is decreasing as demand for ivory goes down worldwide. D-Brief reports.

D-Brief takes a look at the history of imagined landings on the Moon.

D-Brief looks at the long history of O'Neill colonies in popular culture, as imagined settlements in space itself.

D-Brief notes a theory that human brains grew so large fueled by a diet of bone marrow.

Alligators provide scientists with invaluable models of how dinosaurs heard sound. D-Brief reports.

D-Brief examines pulsar PSR J0002+6216, a body ejected from its prior orbit so violently by its formative supernova that it is now escaping the Milky Way Galaxy.

D-Brief notes the remarkable glow emanating from the quasar in the Teacup Galaxy 1.1 billion light-years away.

D-Brief notes genetic evidence suggesting that Anatolian hunter-gatherers, far from being replaced by migrants, adopted agriculture on their own.

Centauri Dreams considers the possibility of life not based on DNA as we know it.

D-Brief considers the possibility that the formation of stratocumulus clouds might be halted by climate change.

Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the negative health effects of the stresses imposed by racists.

Far Outliers notes the mix of migrants in the population of Calcutta.

Hornet Stories notes that the Brazilian government is preparing to revoke marriage equality.

Erin Blakemore writes at JSTOR Daily about the gloriously messy complexity of Jane Eyre.

Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the growing anti-government protests in Algeria.

The NYR Daily notes the response of Auden to an anthology's no-platforming of the poems of Ezra Pound.

pollotenchegg reports on Soviet census data from 1990, mapping the great disparities between different parts of the Soviet Union.

Starts With A Bang notes the mysterious quiet of the black hole at the heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51.

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia is growing increasingly dependent on a more competent China.

Arnold Zwicky writes about some of his encounters, past and present, on Emerson Street in Palo Alto.

Quanta Magazine notes that the deep learning offered by new artificial intelligences can help pick out traces of non-homo sapiens ancestry in our current gene pool.

This sensitive article in The Atlantic examines the extent to which consciousness and emotion are ubiquitous in the world of animals.

NASA notes evidence of the great greening of China and India, associated not only with agriculture in both countries but with the commitment of China to reforestation projects.

Mashable examines the fundamental brittleness of closed systems that will likely limit the classical generation starship.

SciTechDaily notes new observations of SN 1987A revealing a much greater prediction of dust than previously believed.

Architectuul looks at the divided cities of the divided island of Cyprus.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares an image of a galaxy that actually has a tail.

Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber talks about her pain as an immigrant in the United Kingdom in the era of Brexit, her pain being but one of many different types created by this move.

The Crux talks about the rejected American proposal to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, and the several times the United States did arrange for lesser noteworthy events there (collisions, for the record).

D-Brief notes how the innovative use of Curiosity instruments has explained more about the watery past of Gale Crater.

Bruce Dorminey notes one astronomer's theory that Venus tipped early into a greenhouse effect because of a surfeit of carbon relative to Earth.

Far Outliers looks at missionaries in China, and their Yangtze explorations, in the late 19th century.

Gizmodo notes evidence that Neanderthals and Denisovans cohabited in a cave for millennia.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox writes about his exploration of the solo music of Paul McCartney.

io9 looks at what is happening with Namor in the Marvel universe, with interesting echoes of recent Aquaman storylines.

JSTOR Daily looks at the Beothuk of Newfoundland and their sad fate.

Language Hat explores Patagonian Afrikaans.

Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on how mindboggling it is to want to be a billionaire. What would you do with that wealth?

The Map Room Blog shares a visualization of the polar vortex.

Marginal Revolution reports on the career of a writer who writes stories intended to help people fall asleep.

The New APPS Blog reports on the power of biometric data and the threat of its misuse.

Neuroskeptic takes a look at neurogenesis in human beings.

Out There notes the import, in understanding our solar system, of the New Horizons photos of Ultima Thule.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog notes that OSIRIS-REx is in orbit of Bennu and preparing to take samples.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of 21 things that visitors to Kolkata should know.

Mark Simpson takes a critical look at the idea of toxic masculinity. Who benefits?

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why global warming is responsible for the descent of the polar vortex.

Window on Eurasia notes how the pro-Russian Gagauz of Moldova are moving towards a break if the country at large becomes pro-Western.

Arnold Zwicky looks at the art of Finnish painter Hugo Simberg.

Centauri Dreams considers the possible roles and threats posed by artificial intelligence for interstellar missions.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber makes the point that blaming Facebook for the propagation of fake news misses entirely the motives of the people who spread these rumours, online or otherwise.

The Crux looks at the factors which led to the human species' diversity of skin colours.

Dangerous Minds reports on a new collection of early North American electronica.

Far Outliers reports on the salt extraction industry of Sichuan.

JSTOR Daily notes how inbreeding can be a threat to endangered populations, like gorillas.

Language Log examines the connection of the Thai word for soul with Old Sinitic.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at divisions on the American left, including pro-Trump left radicals.

Caitlin Chandler at the NYR Daily reports on the plight of undocumented immigrants in Rome, forced from their squats under the pressure of the new populist government of Italy.

Spacing takes a look at the work of Acton Ostry Architects.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the ten largest non-planetary bodies in the solar system.

Strange Company looks at the very strange 1997 disappearance of Judy Smith from Philadelphia and her latest discovery in the North Carolina wilderness. What happened to her?

Strange Maps looks at the worrisome polarization globally between supporters and opponents of the current government in Venezuela. Is this a 1914 moment?

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia and Venezuela share a common oil-fueled authoritarian fragility.

Arnold Zwicky looks at the camelids of Peru, stuffed toys and llamas and more.

JSTOR looks at the silkwomen of medieval London.

JSTOR Daily looks at the public spectacle of dissections in the medieval and early modern worlds.

JSTOR Daily explores the mysteries surrounding the death of American explorer Meriwether Lewis.

JSTOR Daily explores the motivations behind Byrd's south polar expedition of 1928-1930.

JSTOR Daily cautions against fearing a "sex recession".

JSTOR Daily explores the concept of warp drive, a technology that might actually be doable.

D-Brief notes that upcoming generations of atomic clocks can be so accurate that they might be able to detect dark matter.

China's Chang'e-4 moon lander is en route to our nearest partner world, D-Brief reports.

D-Brief notes that the ratio of hydrogen to deuterium in the water of the Saturn moon of Phoebe differs not only from that on Earth but that of the icy worlds in the Saturn system, suggesting Phoebe formed elsewhere.

The stresses of living in space makes organisms like mice and human beings prone to infections, D-Brief notes.

A study of nascent exoplanets in a starforming region of Taurus, some 450 light-years away, provides invaluable information about how planets form, D-Brief observes.

Architectuul interviews Vladimir Kulić, curator of the MoMA exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, about the history of innovative architecture in Yugoslavia.

The Crux takes a look at the long search for hidden planets in the solar system, starting with Neptune and continuing to Tyche.

D-Brief notes that ISRO, the space agency of India, is planning on launching a mission to Venus, and is soliciting outside contributions.

Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage writes about his efforts to photograph, from space, clouds over California's Mount Whitney.

Earther notes that geoengineering is being considered as one strategy to help save the coral reefs.

Gizmodo takes a look at the limits, legal and otherwise, facing the Internet Archive in its preservation of humanity's online history.

JSTOR Daily explains why the Loch Ness monster has the scientific binominal Nessiteras rhombopteryx.
Language Hat links to "The Poor Man of Nippur", a short film by Cambridge academic Martin Worthington that may be the first film in the Babylonian language.

The LRB Blog notes the conflict between West Bank settlers and Airbnb. Am I churlish to wish that neither side wins?

Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting how quickly, after Poland regained its independence, human capital differences between the different parts of the once-divided country faded.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel takes a look at what it takes, in terms of element abundance and galactic structure, for life-bearing planets to form in the early universe, and when they can form.

Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber considers democracy as an information system.

The Crux shares what we have learned from our studies of the tusks of the mammoths.

D-Brief notes another landmark of the InSight mission: It brought two CubeSats with it to Mars.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the odaliques of Matisse, paintings of North African women in intimate positions, in the contexts of colonialism and #metoo. What untold stories are there with these images?

Anakana Schofield writes at the LRB Blog about her problems finding CBD oil post-marijuana legalization in greater Vancouver.

The Map Room Blog notes the support of Popular Mechanics for paper maps, even in the digital age.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution praises Toby Green's new history of West Africa, A Fistful of Shells, a book that emphasizes the influence of West Africa in the Americas and the wider Atlantic world.

The NYR Daily carries a Tim Parks essay questioning whether it is worthwhile for an author to consciously seek out literary glory.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the possibility that rocky planets might get large moons only if they suffer large impacts.

Window on Eurasia reports on the insulting remarks of Russian liberal Oleg Kashin towards Ukrainians, and Tatars too, suggesting even liberal Russians might well be inclined to be anti-Ukrainian.

Arnold Zwicky notes a remarkable word error in noting the 40th anniversary of the deaths of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, changing "assassination" into "assignation".

The Crux considers the anthropic principle. To what degree are the natural laws of the universe naturally suited to supporting life?

D-Brief notes the detection of an ultra-hot magnetosphere about white dwarf GALEXJ014636.8+323615, 1200 light-years away.

Far Outliers notes how how Japan's civil wars in the 1860s were not a straightforward matter of conflicts between supporters of the shogun and supporters of the emperor.

Amanda Woytus at JSTOR Daily notes how the ever-popular Baby-Sitters Club series of children's novels reflected a now-gone sense of an American life that could be safe.

Language Log looks at the use of Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in a Vietnamese patriotic slogan.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the manufactured scandal around the supposed idea that Hillary Clinton wants to run for the American presidency in 2020.

Lorna Finlayson writes at the LRB Blog, using the example of her great-uncle killed at the Somme, about how representing the dead of the First World War as willing sacrificers of their lives against tyranny misrepresents them.

Rachelle Krygier writes at Roads and Kingdoms about how finding enough food to eat can be a day-long challenge if you happen to live in Venezuela.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explores the question of who, exactly, determined that the universe was expanding.

Window on Eurasia quotes a Russian analyst who makes the point that, given many of the other Soviet successor states are going in directions away from Russia, it makes no sense to talk about a "post-Soviet space".

Centauri Dreams takes a look at the first generation of stars, starting with newly-discovered ancient 2MASS J18082002–5104378 B.
Crooked Timber takes a look at the political opinions of different generations in the United States. Is there a shift about to happen?

The Crux takes a look at the excavation of the floating pleasure palaces of Caligula in Italy's Lake Nemi, something showing the scope of Roman construction.

D-Brief notes how scientists managed to trigger limb regrowth in frogs, with obvious potential for humans.

JSTOR Daily looks at the many quiet ways in which the slaves of Arkansas resisted their domination by whites.

Lingua Franca takes a look at the strange linguistic crime of blasphemy in 21st century Europe.

At the NYR Daily, Nicole Rudick examines the early work of underground Montréal cartoonist Julie Doucet.

Window on Eurasia shares a warning that growing pressures on land could lead to ethnic conflict in the North Caucasus.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait considers nearby galaxy NGC 6744, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy that may look like the Milky Way.

D-Brief notes the remarkable ceramic spring that gives the mantis shrimp its remarkably powerful punch.

Far Outliers notes how the north Korean port of Hamhung was modernized in the 1930s, but also Japanized, with few legacies of its Korean past remaining.

Joe. My. God. notes how the Trump administration plans to define being transgender out of existence. Appalling.

Alexandra Samuel at JSTOR Daily notes the ways in which the Internet has undermined the traditions which support American political institutions. Can new traditions be made?

Lawyers, Guns, and Money notes how the Trump's withdrawal from the INF treaty with Russia on nuclear weapons harms American security.

Rose Jacobs at Lingua Franca writes about ways in which derision, specifically of other nationalities, enters into English slang.

Marginal Revolution notes that, in an article surveying the Icelandic language, a report that sales of books in Iceland have fallen by nearly half since 2010.

The NYR Daily looks at two recent movies, one autobiographical and one fictional, looking at dads in space.

Jason Perry at the Planetary Society Blog reports on the latest imagery of the volcanoes of Io.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the possibility that time travel might not destroy the universe via paradoxes.

Window on Eurasia suggests that the experience of post-Soviet Estonia with its two Orthodox churches might be a model for Ukraine.

The mysterious cause of the "blood falls" of Antarctica has been uncovered. VICE's Motherboard reports.

The Great Green Wall of Africa may not have prevented desertification in the Sahel, but it is a project that has left some positive legacies. Smithsonian Magazine reports.

Universe Today considers if cyanobacteria could be used to help terraform Mars. (Maybe, though there would still be the planet's shortages of basic chemicals to deal with.)

The Atlantic reports on the almost surprisingly revelatory nature of an Anders Sandberg paper imagining what would to the Earth if it became a mass of blueberries.

WBUR reports on the discovery of a new pigment for my favourite colour blue, comprising (among other elements) the rare indium.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her rules for life.

The Crux explores the development of robots that can learn from each other.

JSTOR Daily explores the legal and environmental reasons why commercial supersonic flight never took off.

Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money imagines what might have been had the F-14 Tomcat never escaped development hell.

Peter Watts wonders if, with de-extinction becoming possible, future generations might become even less careful with the environment, knowing they can fix things and never bothering to do so.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw argues that, with MOOCs and multiple careers in a working lifespan, autodidacticism is bound to return.

The Planetary Society Blog's Marc Rayman looks at the final orbits of the Dawn probe over Ceres and the expected scientific returns.

Roads and Kingdoms explores the New Jersey sandwich known, alternatively, as the Taylor ham and the pork roll.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers what led to the early universe having an excess of matter over antimatter.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy explores why the California Supreme Court took the trifurcation of California off referendum papers.

Window on Eurasia notes how some in independent Azerbaijan fears that Iranian ethnic Azeris might try to subvert the independent country's secularism.

Kambiz Kamrani at Anthropology.net notes new findings suggesting that the creation of cave art by early humans is product of the same skills that let early humans use language.

Davide Marchetti at Architectuul looks at some overlooked and neglected buildings in and around Rome.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait explains how Sirius was able to hide the brilliant Gaia 1 star cluster behind it.

Centauri Dreams looks at new procedures for streamlining the verification of new exoplanet detections.

Crooked Timber notes the remarkably successful and once-controversial eroticization of plant reproduction in the poems of Erasmus Darwin.

Dangerous Minds notes how an errant Confederate flag on a single nearly derailed the career of Otis Redding.

Detecting biosignatures from exoplanets, Bruce Dorminey notes, may require "fleets" of sensitive space-based telescopes.

Far Outliers looks at persecution of non-Shi'ite Muslims in Safavid Iran.

JSTOR Daily looks at the history of the enslavement of Native Americans in early colonial America, something often overlooked by later generations.

This video shared by Language Log, featuring two Amazon Echos repeating texts to each other and showing how these iterations change over time, is oddly fascinating.

At Lawyers, Guns and Money, Erik Loomis is quite clear about the good sense of Will Wilkinson's point that controversy over "illegal" immigration is actually deeply connected to an exclusivist racism that imagines Hispanics to not be Americans.

Lingua Franca, at the Chronicle of Higher Education, looks at the uses of the word "redemption", particularly in the context of the Olympics.

The LRB Blog suggests Russiagate is becoming a matter of hysteria. I'm unconvinced, frankly.

The Map Room Blog shares a map showing global sea level rise over the past decades.

Marginal Revolution makes a case for Americans to learn foreign languages on principle. As a Canadian who recently visited a decidedly Hispanic New York, I would add that Spanish, at least, is one language quite potentially useful to Americans in their own country.

Drew Rowsome writes about the striking photographs of Olivier Valsecchi.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, in the 2030s, gravitational wave observatories will be so sensitive that they will be able to detect black holes about to collide years in advance.

Towleroad lists festival highlights for New Orleans all over the year.

Window on Eurasia notes how recent changes to the Russian education system harming minority languages have inspired some Muslim populations to link their language to their religion.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell makes the case that Jeremy Corbyn, through his strength in the British House of Commons, is really the only potential Remainder who is in a position of power.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her love for New York's famous, dynamic, Hudson River.

Centauri Dreams notes the amazing potential for pulsar navigation to provide almost absolutely reliable guidance across the space of at least a galaxy.

Far Outliers notes the massive scale of German losses in France after the Normandy invasion.

Hornet Stories looks at the latest on theories as to the origin of homosexuality.

Joe. My. God remembers Dr. Mathilde Krim, dead this week at 91, one of the early medical heroes of HIV/AIDS in New York City.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at what, exactly, is K-POP.

Language Log notes that, in Xinjiang, the Chinese government has opted to repress education in the Mongolian language.

Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests that the risk of war in Korea is less than the media suggests.

At Chronicle's Lingua Franca, Ben Yagoda looks at redundancy in writing styles.

The NYR Daily looks at the complex relationship of French publishing house Gallimard to Céline and his Naziphile anti-Semitism.

The Planetary Society Blog looks at the latest images of Venus from Japan's Akatsuki probe.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes the apparent willingness of Trump to use a wall with Mexico--tariffs, particularly--to pay for the wall.

Spacing reviews a new book examining destination architecture.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers what I think is a plausible concept: Could be that there are plenty of aliens out there and we are just missing them?

At Strange Maps, Frank Jacobs shares a map of "Tabarnia", the region of Catalonia around Barcelona that is skeptical of Catalonian separatism and is being positioned half-seriously as another secessionist entity.

Window on Eurasia notes that an actively used language is hardly the only mechanism by which a separatist identity can exist.

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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: hobos, bird green, Ireland linen, Frank Lloyd Wright, photosynthesis
[BLOG] Five D-Brief links: microbiome, genetic engineering, elephant ivory, Moon, O'Neill colonies
[NEWS] Five D-Brief links: brains and marrow, dinosaurs, PSR J0002+6216, Teacup Galaxy, Anatolia
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[NEWS] Five science links: ancient humans, animal minds, green Asia, generation starships, SN1987A
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[URBAN NOTE] Ten JSTOR Daily links (@jstor_daily)

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: hobos, bird green, Ireland linen, Frank Lloyd Wright, photosynthesis

[BLOG] Five D-Brief links: microbiome, genetic engineering, elephant ivory, Moon, O'Neill colonies

[NEWS] Five D-Brief links: brains and marrow, dinosaurs, PSR J0002+6216, Teacup Galaxy, Anatolia

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[NEWS] Five science links: ancient humans, animal minds, green Asia, generation starships, SN1987A

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[NEWS] Six JSTOR Daily links: silkwomen, dissection, Lewis, Byrd and Antarctica, sex, warp drive

[NEWS] Five D-Brief links: atomic clocks and dark matter, Chang'e-4, Phoebe, health, exoplanets

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[NEWS] Five science links: Antarctica blood falls, Great Green Wall, Mars, blueberry Earth, blue

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