[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

Nov. 13th, 2019 01:35 pm
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  • Bad Astronomer notes a new study explaining how climate change makes hurricanes more destructive.

  • Centauri Dreams shares a mosaic photo of the sky with Alpha Centauri highlighted.

  • The Crux shares a paper explaining why the bubonic plague rarely becomes mass epidemics like the Black Death of the 14th century.

  • D-Brief notes the new ESA satellite ARIEL, which will be capable of determining of exoplanet skies are clear or not.

  • Gizmodo consults different experts on the subject of smart drugs. Do they work?

  • JSTOR Daily explains why Native Americans are so prominent in firefighting in the US Southwest.

  • Language Log looks at evidence for the diffusion of "horse master" between speakers of ancient Indo-European and Sinitic languages.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the election of Chesa Boudin as San Francisco District Attorney.

  • The LRB Blog considers the apparent pact between Farage and Johnson on Brexit.

  • Marginal Revolution looks at a paper examining longer-run effects of the integration of the US military on racial lines in the Korean War.

  • The NYR Daily looks at how Big Pharma in the US is trying to deal with the opioid epidemic.

  • The Signal explains how the Library of Congress is expanding its collections of digital material.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how future generations of telescopes will be able to directly measure the expansion of the universe.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy explains why DACA, giving succor to Dreamers, is legal.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that, after a century of tumult, the economy of Russia is back at the same relative ranking that it enjoyed a century ago.

  • Arnold Zwicky reports on an old butch cookbook.

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[LINK] Some Friday links

May. 15th, 2009 09:19 am
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This week, I've added the comment forum t h e FORVM to the blogroll. Go, visit!


  • Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton blogs about the need to remember history so as to war against the dying of the light.

  • Alpha Sources' Claus Vistesen is wondering what the investment patterns of Japanese housewives indicate about the structure of the Japanese economy and the prospects for world economic recovery.

  • blogTO reports that fiddleheads are now available to eat in Toronto. real fiddleheads, not the ones that I mistakenly identified on Prince Edward Island as a youth.

  • Antonia Zerbisias at Broadsides points out that Mother's Day was proposed by a woman, Julia Ward Howe, who sought to make the holiday into a memorial by mothers to their sons killed in the Civil War and other conflicts. And yes, she also wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic.)

  • Far Outliers' Joel quotes Niall Ferguson on the origins of the Second World War, to the effect that Hitler's foreign policy was actually a radical reorientation of Germany's traditional foreign policy.

  • t h e FORVM's M Aurelius makes the point, on Margaret Thatcher's 30th anniversary, that she would come across as a "Euro wimp," a member of the Democratic Party, even, to many Republicans today. (She believed in science! She allowed abortion rights! She didn't bomb targets on the Argentine mainland!)

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money's Charli Carpenter makes the point that the question of whether or not torture is effective is beside the point.

  • Marginal Revolution explores the reasons why Canada's financial sector didn't have a meltdown on the American model. Among other things, people can't walk away from their mortgages.

  • [livejournal.com profile] pauldrye at Passing Strangeness examines the horse flu epidemic of the 1870s, with its implications for the economy, politics and war, and the emergent fields of microbiology and epidemiology.

  • Noel Maurer takes on the concept of a resource curse.

  • Space and Culture has a picture of oil sands scrapers on the move in northern Alberta.

  • Spacing Toronto's posts a video depicting the Lower Donlands, now a relatively industrial and unattractive area, post-clean up and restoration, while Thomas Wicks blogs about the Iroquoian longhouse in Toronto.

  • Torontoist's Kevin Plummer commemorates the 1934 visit of Canadian communist leader Tim Buck to Toronto.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy's Ilya Sumin wonders when the United Federation of Planets became socialist. Yes, I know.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests that interethnic marriages in the North Caucasus are becoming increasingly rare and wonders about this statistic's import on interethnic relations.

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