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- The Toronto Islands are open for business this year, hopefully without any hitches. (Let there not be unexpected flooding.) Global News reports.
- The sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia has been freed from rat infestations, helping native life recover. National Geographic reports.
- Killing invasive deer on Haida Gwaii is the task of recruited sharpshooters from New Zealand. MacLean's reports.
- Controversy over a new museum to slavery on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe draws on all sorts of political and cultural and economic issues besetting the territory. The Atlantic reports.
- The exact language of the question to be asked of voters in the New Caledonia referendum on independence, coming this year, is a critical question. The Lowy Institute examines the issue.
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Sep. 20th, 2016 09:54 am- Anthropology.net deals with the use of technology to save endangered languages.
- At the Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly starts off a discussion of high school by starting with The Breakfast Club.
- Dangerous Minds shares video of a very early performance by the Police.
- The Frailest Thing engages with the idea and importance of memory.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes Rod Dreher's anti-refugee stance.
- The Map Room Blog looks at the new Atlas Obscura book.
- The Planetary Society Weblog takes a rocket roadtrip.
- Savage Minds considers the importance of decolonization.
- Torontoist notes a Toronto Sun editorial in favour of Rail Deck Park.
- Understanding Society considers the international measurement of happiness.
- The Volokh Conspiracy argues that Gary Johnson is good for Hillary.
[BLOG] Some Friday links
Aug. 24th, 2012 01:59 pm- Andrew Barton remarks on the fact that not only are the dominant newspapers of British Columbia part of a commercial monopoly, they're all going up behind paywalls, too.
- Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster notes that galaxies like our Milky Way, which has two relatively large satellite galaxies (the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds), are actually quite rare in the universe.
- In his ongoing False Steps blog,
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pauldrye describes a proposed American spacecraft designed in 1946 that could have sent an astronaut into space a decade ahead of time. - Geocurrents describes the peculiar situation of the booming Somalian city of Galkayo, divided between two state-like entities.
- GNXP's Razib Khan is very critical of the recently-voiced argument that Indo-European languages evolved in Anatolia, not the Pontic steppes.
- Marginal Revolution takes note of Mexico's heavy investment in the United States, one data point illustrating that Mexico is actually something of a global economic power.
- New APPS Blog's Mohan Matthen revisits the question of Gandhi criticism.
- Savage Minds links to an anthropologist's posting describing how, given the terrible economic prospects for students in the field, the only future for anthropology truly is outside of academia. More later.
- Torontoist takes note of the commemoration of the one-year anniversary of Jack Layton's death at Toronto City Hall.
- Towleroad's Andrew Belonsky points out that the ongoing trend in the United States towards acceptance of same-sex marriage is likely to influence eventual Supreme Court decisions.
- At The Way the Future Blogs, Frederik Pohl is right to note that one major element behind the decline of Mexican emigration to the United States is the sharp fall in the Mexican fertility rate. This is not the only factor at play, however, as he implies.
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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Aug. 22nd, 2012 01:50 pm- Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster considers recent research suggesting that hypothetical "waterworlds"--broadly Earth-like planets with very large amounts of water, covering their rocky surfaces entirely--might in fact enter into "moist greenhouse" phases that would see their excess of water evaporate, leaving an Earth-like planet with an Earth-like combination of rocky and watery surfaces behind.
- Geocurrents' Nicholas Baldo highlights various bodies of watyer with exceptionally high salt content, from Antarctica to Turkmenistan.
- Language Hat notes some interesting linguistic soupçons, unusual loanwords and the ease of post-war travel and the like, in Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey.
- In one post at Lawyers, Guns and Money, Erik Loomis starts a discussion about continuing high levels of inequality in South Africa as evidenced by the recent massacre of miners, while Scott Lemieux starts a discussion about misogyny in the United States' Republican Party as illustrated by Akin's heinous comments.
- New APPS Blog's Mohan Matthen takes significant issue with Perry Anderson's recent criticisms of Gandhi and Nehru in the London Review of Books.
- The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer argues from Canada's existing experience embedded in international property rights protection law regimes that ratifying the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes Convention won't change anything.
- Registan's Casey Michel is unimpressed with pro-Wikileaks Uzbekistan critic Craig Murray's use of his own wife's rape to attack Assange's accusers.
- Supernova Condensate's invaderxan presents his own, purely mass-based, classification of celestial objects in response to the ongoing dwarf planet controversy.
- Daniel Little at Understanding Society presents an interesting argument from a pair of sociologists in 2007 to the effect that political polarization can more often be not be an artifact of perception.
As angel80 notes, the ongoing civil violence in East Timor was precipitated by the sadly typical of newly-decolonized states, with tensions between factions of the ruling party and a profoundly dysfunctional economy encouraging violence and rancour.
You know, we on the outside had a chance to help East Timor avoid this fate, both in 1976 and in 1999. What a pity for the East Timorese that we opted to do nothing, or--at best--not enough.
angel80 notes, the ongoing civil violence in East Timor was precipitated by the sadly typical of newly-decolonized states, with tensions between factions of the ruling party and a profoundly dysfunctional economy encouraging violence and rancour.You know, we on the outside had a chance to help East Timor avoid this fate, both in 1976 and in 1999. What a pity for the East Timorese that we opted to do nothing, or--at best--not enough.
