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[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Sep. 30th, 2017 11:46 am- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the discovery of activity on distant comet
C/2017 K2. - Centauri Dreams notes a new proposal for an orbital telescope that could detect Earth-like worlds at Alpha Centauri A and B.
- D-Brief notes a new research finding that chimpanzees can learn to use tools on their own, without teaching.
- Dangerous Minds notes the interesting Detroit character of Gundella, the Green Witch of Detroit.
- Language Log tries to decipher some garbled Hebrew at an American wedding.
- The LRB Blog looks at the continued aftershocks, social and otherwise, from the recent earthquake in Mexico.
- Marginal Revolution argues that North Korea is set to become more China's problem than the United States'.
- Roads and Kingdoms notes the simple pleasures of soy milk in China.
- Seriously Science notes a study looking at the different factors in the personalities of cats.
- Towleroad notes the recent discovery of an antibody effective against 99% or so variants of HIV.
- Window on Eurasia argues Russian politics play a central role in getting Russophones in Ukraine to become Ukrainian.
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- alpha centauri,
- animal intelligence,
- astronomy,
- blogs,
- cats,
- china,
- detroit,
- disasters,
- extraterrestrial life,
- food,
- former soviet union,
- geopolitics,
- health,
- hebrew,
- hiv/aids,
- korea,
- latin america,
- links,
- medicine,
- mexico,
- national identity,
- north korea,
- oddities,
- primates,
- russia,
- russian language,
- space science,
- ukraine,
- ukrainian language,
- united states
- The Verge notes the Japanese cat island of Ainoshima has a music video in a bid to bring Ed Sheeran to its shores.
- ABC notes new findings that Tasmanian Aborigines have used fire to manage their island's forests for 41k years.
- The Independent notes the devastation of Barbuda by Hurricane Irma.
- CBC looks at the causes of Salt Spring Island's divisions over the issue of becoming a municipality. (The antis won.)
[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Aug. 26th, 2017 06:06 pm- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte, loneliest galaxy in the Local Group.
- Centauri Dreams examines the recent detailed view of the star Antares, and notes Antares' mysteries.
- False Steps' Paul Drye notes Project Adam, a Sputnik-era proposal for a manned American suborbital flight.
- Far Outliers recounts a 1945 encounter between an American general and the Sultan of Sulu, impoverished by the war.
- Language Log notes the Sino-Indian propaganda video war over their border dispute in the Himalayas.
- The LRB Blog looks at the messy process of the demobilization of FARC in Colombia.
- Marginal Revolution looks at how Virginia has managed to become a multicultural success story.
- The NYR Daily looks at the photos of India taken by Cartier-Bresson.
- The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders how, despite the drug war, Mexico City continues to feel (even be) so peaceful. Can it last?
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel goes through the many reasons why it makes no sense to fear first contact with aliens.
- Strange Company tells of Bunkie Dodge, pool-playing cat of early 20th century New England.
- Unicorn Booty notes that the new Taylor Swift song is inspired by Right Said Fred's "I'm So Sexy."
- Window on Eurasia shares an argument that an essentially post-colonial Russophone cultural community cannot coexist with a Russian empire.
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- alternate history,
- astronomy,
- bhutan,
- blogs,
- borders,
- cats,
- china,
- colombia,
- crime,
- demographics,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- former soviet union,
- glbt issues,
- imperialism,
- india,
- latin america,
- links,
- mexico,
- new england,
- philippines,
- photos,
- popular music,
- russia,
- russian language,
- second world war,
- social networking,
- south america,
- south asia,
- southeast asia,
- space science,
- space travel,
- united states,
- war
[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Jul. 29th, 2017 02:20 pm- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the emergent evidence for exomoon Kepler-1625b-I.
- Centauri Dreams looks at the future of technological civilizations: what if they do not always ascend, but stagnate?
- D-Brief takes issue with the idea of the "digital native." Everyone needs to adopt new technology at some point.
- Are Elon Musk and Space-X backing away from the Mars colony plans? The Dragon's Tales notes.
- The Map Room Blog links to a map of massacres of Aborigines on the Australian frontiers.
- Marginal Revolution wonders if widespread roboticization really will increase productivity much.
- Roads and Kingdoms reports on the traditional rum of Newfoundland.
- Drew Rowsome likes a new Toronto show, Permanence, in part for its take on male sexuality and sexual presence.
- The Russian Demographics Blog notes that Russia leads the world in cat ownership.
- Strange Company reports on coin-collecting 1920 cat Peter Pan Wass.
- Understanding Society takes a look at the potential conflicts between "contingency" and "explanation."
- The Volokh Conspiracy looks at how a Nassau County legislator wants to block a Roger Waters conconcert because of his support for an Israel boycott.
- Window on Eurasia notes that Chinese outnumber Jews in the Far East's Jewish Autonomous Oblast. (Not many of both, mind.)
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- astronomy,
- australia,
- blogs,
- cats,
- china,
- demographics,
- economics,
- extraterrestrial intelligence,
- first nations,
- futurology,
- genocide,
- israel,
- jews,
- links,
- mars,
- new york,
- newfoundland,
- popular music,
- russia,
- sexuality,
- siberia,
- social sciences,
- sociology,
- space science,
- technology,
- theatre,
- toronto
- In The Globe and Mail, Elizabeth Renzetti looks at the Toronto debate on having cats indoors or outdoors. (I think the first is best.)
- Helena Oliveira at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution describes how people can train their cats to make use of leashes. (Should I have?)
- The SCMP reports on a Hong Kong prison that will allow inmates to keep cats, for the time being.
- John Michael McGrath argues at TVO that leaving Toronto for Ontario cities with cheaper housing misses the issue of jobs. For starters.
- Michelle McQuigge looks at how the CNIB is helping make Yonge and St. Clair accessible to the blind.
- In The Globe and Mail, Erik Heinrich looks at how a mid-rise office tower at 1133 Yonge Street is being transformed into condos.
- The Toronto Star reports that the condo/hotel tower at 325 Bay Street no longer bears the name of Trump. Toronto is free!
- The end of the Palace Arms rooming house at King and Strachan, Christian Controneo notes at Torontoist, must be seen as terrible for the people who live there.
- blogTO notes that E. Coli levels on mainland Toronto beaches make them unsafe for swimmers. No lake water this year!
- blogTO notes that Montréal architect Claude Cormier, designer of HTO and Berczy, will next do a cat-themed park.
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