A Bit More Detail

• Adam Fish at anthro{dendum} compares different sorts of public bathing around the world, from Native America to Norden to Japan.


• Charlie Stross at Antipope is unimpressed by the person writing the script for our timeline.


• Architectuul reports on an architectural conference in Lisbon.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning photos of the eruption of the Raikoke volcano in Kamchatka.


• Centauri Dreams looks at what the Voyager spacecraft have returned about the edge of the solar system.


• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with the idea of bipartisanship if it means compromising on reality, allegorically.


• The Crux counts the number of people who have died in outer space.


• D-Brief notes that the Andromeda Galaxy has swallowed up multiple dwarf galaxies over the eons.


• Dead Things notes the identification of the first raptor species from Southeast Asia, Siamraptor suwati.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a paper tracing the origins of interstellar comet 2/Borisov from the general area of Kruger 60.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about the privilege allowing people access to affordable dental care.


• Gizmodo tells how Alexei Leonov survived the first spacewalk.


• io9 looks at the remarkable new status quo for the X-Men created by Jonathan Hickman.


• Selma Franssen at the Island Review writes about the threats facing the seabirds of the Shetlands.


• JSTOR Daily looks at what led Richard Nixon to make so many breaks from the American consensus on China in the Cold War.


• Language Log notes an undergraduate course at Yale using the Voynich Manuscript as an aid in the study of language.


• Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains her recent experience of the socialized health care system of Israel for Americans.


• The LRB Blog looks at how badly the Fukuyama prediction of an end to history has aged.


• The Map Room Blog shares a few maps of the new Ottawa LRT route.


• Marginal Revolution notes a paper establishing a link between Chinese industries undermining their counterparts in Mexico and Mexican social ills including crime.


• Sean Marshall reports from Ottawa about what the Confederation Line looks like.


• Adam Shatz at the NYR Daily looks at the power of improvisation in music.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at South Williamsburg Jewish deli Gottlieb's.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the new Patti Smith book, Year of the Monkey.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper looking as the factors leading into transnational movements.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the question of the direction(s) in which order in the universe was generated.


• Window on Eurasia shares a report noting the very minor flows of migration from China to Russia.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the politics in the British riding of Keighley.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at some penguin socks.

• In an extended meditation, Antipope's Charlie Stross considers what the domestic architecture of the future will look like. What different technologies, with different uses of space, will come into play?


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the new SPECULOOS exoplanet hunting telescope, specializing in the search for planets around the coolest stars.


• The Crux looks at the evolutionary origins of hominins and chimpanzees in an upright walking ape several million years ago.


• D-Brief notes the multiple detections of gravitational waves made by LIGO.


• The Dragon's Tales looks at the development of laser weapons by China.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the gap between social theory and field research.


• Gizmodo shares an interesting discussion with paleontologists and other dinosaur experts: What would the dinosaurs have become if not for the Chixculub impact?


• Hornet Stories notes the ways in which the policies of the Satanic Temple would be good for queer students.


• io9 notes how the Deep Space 9 documentary What We Leave Behind imagines what a Season 8 would have looked like.


• Joe. My. God. reports that activist Jacob Wohl is apparently behind allegations of a sexual assault by Pete Buttigieg against a subordinate.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the uses of the yellow ribbon in American popular culture.
  
• Language Hat shares an account of the life experiences of an Israeli taxi driver, spread across languages and borders.


• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money makes deserved fun of Bret Easton Ellis for his claims to having been marginalized.


• Marginal Revolution considers, briefly, the idea that artificial intelligence might not be harmful to humans. (Why would it necessarily have to be?)


• The NYR Daily considers a British exhibition of artworks by artists from the former Czechoslovakia.


• Peter Rukavina looks at gender representation in party caucuses in PEI from the early 1990s on, noting the huge surge in female representation in the Greens now.


• The Signal looks at how the Library of Congress is preserving Latin American monographs.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how Einstein knew that gravity must bend light.


• Window on Eurasia explains the sharp drop in the ethnic Russian population of Tuva in the 1990s.

• D-Brief notes new evidence that the biggest Tyrannosaurus was the oldest one.


• D-Brief notes a new study suggesting that hallucinations are the responses of the body to a lack of sensory stimulation.


• D-Brief notes that LIGO has resumed its hunt for gravitational wave sources.


• D-Brief notes that antibiotic-resistant bacteria can be found in abundance at wastewater treatment plants.


• D-Brief notes a new effort to enlist human eyes to detect stellar clusters in the Magellanic Clouds.

• National Geographic reports on the discovery of animals slaughtered by mysterious hominins present in the Philippines some 700 thousand years ago. Who were they?


• National Geographic notes a new study suggesting that, before the Chixculub impact, the dinosaurs were doing fine as a group of animals, that they were not on the verge of dying out. The dinosaurs simply had bad luck.


• CityLab notes how the jobs typically filled by women, particularly, are especially vulnerable to roboticization.


• CBC recently reported from a conference in Las Vegas, where robots demonstrated their ability to fill any number of jobs, displacing human workers.


• Matt Simon at WIRED wrote about the potential for robot and human workers to co-exist, each with their own strengths.

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the newly-named Neptune moon of Hippocamp, and how it came about as product of a massive collision with the larger moon of Proteus.


• Centauri Dreams also reports on the discovery of the Neptune moon of Hippocamp.


• Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes how the attempt to revoke the citizenship of Shamima Begum sets a terribly dangerous precedent for the United Kingdom.


• D-Brief notes new evidence suggesting the role of the Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions in triggering the Cretaceous extinction event, alongside the Chixculub asteroid impact.


• Far Outliers notes the problems of Lawrence of Arabia with Indian soldiers and with Turks.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing takes issue with the state of philosophical contemplation about technology, at least in part a structural consequence of society.


• Hornet Stories shares this feature examining the future of gay porn, in an environment where amateur porn undermines the existing studios.


• JSTOR Daily considers the spotty history of casting African-American dancers in ballet.


• Language Hat suggests that the Académie française will soon accept for French feminized nouns of nouns links to professionals ("écrivaine" for a female writer, for instance).


• The LRB Blog considers the implications of the stripping of citizenship from Shamima Begum. Who is next? How badly is citizenship weakened in the United Kingdom?


• Marginal Revolution notes the upset of Haiti over its banning by Expedia.


• The NYR Daily notes the tension in Turkey between the country's liberal laws on divorce and marriage and rising Islamization.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the moment, in the history of the universe, when dark energy became the dominant factors in the universe's evolution.


• Towleroad remembers Roy Cohn, the lawyer who was the collaborator of Trump up to the moment of Cohn's death from AIDS.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little takes a look at Marx's theories of how governments worked.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the existential pressures facing many minority languages in Russia.

• The Crux looks at Henrietta Leavitt, the astronomer who helped measure the size of the universe.


• D-Brief notes that the Chang'e-4 rover has briefly woken up to conduct science on the Moon before returning to hibernation.


• Gizmodo notes that an ancient feather thought for generations to belong to Archeopteryx actually belongs to a different feathered animal.


• JSTOR Daily notes the importance of protecting wild plants related to major foodstuffs, like coffee, from extinction.


• Language Hat links to a chart depicting the evolution of alphabets from the original Proto-Sinaitic.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money explores the bizarre scandal surrounding Virginia governor Ralph Northam. (I think him badly compromised, myself.)


• Marginal Revolution looks at the reasons for the unexpected flight of capital from emerging economies. (Insecurity seems to be one cause.)


• The Planetary Society Blog shares some galactic astrophotography of Adam Block.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the importance of continuing to try to answer the big questions of science.


• Window on Eurasia notes the emergence in Russia of people who reject Russian statehood and instead claim Soviet legitimacy, echoes of sovereign citizens and Reichsbürger of Germany.


• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the idea of alphabetic order, starting with the question of how to learn it.

• The Buzz celebrates Esi Edugyan's winning of the Giller Prize for the second time, for her amazing novel Washington Black.


• Centauri Dreams notes the unusual rings of outer-system body Chariklo.


• The Crux looks at the long history of unsuccessful planet-hunting at Barnard's Star, concentrating on the disproved mid-20th century work of Peter Van De Kamp.


• D-Brief notes evidence that Mars knew catastrophic floods that radically reshaped its surface.


• Bruce Dorminey visits and explores Korea's ancient Cheomseongdae Observatory.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the death of long-time contributor Peter Kaufman.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the things--quiet, even--that modernity can undermine before transforming into a commodity.


• Imageo notes that global warming has continued this American Thanksgiving.


• Joe. My. God. notes the sour grapes of the Family Research Council at the success of the moving film about "gay conversion therapy", Boy Erased.


• JSTOR Daily links to a paper considering if the zeitgeist of the world is into major monuments.


• Language Log considers a news report of "arsehole" geese in Australia. As a Canadian, all I can say is that geese are birds that know they are dinosaurs.


• The LRB Blog reports from the scene of the recent unrecognized elections in the city of Donetsk, run by a pro-Russian regime.


• The Map Room Blog reports on how Atlas Obscura is exhibiting some amazing maps produced in Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting how black teachers can help boost achievements among black students.


• The New APPS Blog looks at how the political economy of our time combines with social media to atomize and fragment society.


• Nicholas Lezard at the NYR Daily talks about his experience of anti-Semitism, as a non-Jew, in the United Kingdom.


• Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog suggests families would do better to talk about space at Thanksgiving than about politics, and shares a list of subjects.


• Drew Rowsome talks about the frustrations and the entertainment involved with Bohemian Rhapsody.


• Window on Eurasia notes that fifty thousand ethnic Kyrgyz are being held in the Xinjiang camps of China.


• Arnold Zwicky shares some Thanksgiving holiday cartoons by Roz Chast.

At its center, the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda features an iconic dinosaur exhibit: a dramatic representation of an imagined prehistoric encounter: a Barosaurus rearing up to protect its young from an attacking Allosaurus. The Barosaurus skeleton, which is the tallest freestanding dinosaur mount in the world, is composed of replica bones cast from actual fossils, which would be too heavy to support in this fashion. As part of the restoration of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, this display mount was divided in two, allowing visitors to walk between the famous combatants for the first time.