[LINK] Some Friday links

Sep. 11th, 2009 05:32 pm
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  • blogTO explores the lower Bay TTC subway station, built and then closed off decades ago.
  • Centauri Dreams looks at a white dwarf in our very general neighbourhood that may go supernova relatively soon.

  • Charlie Stross considers the question of how businesses can gain consumers' goodwill and how quickly they can lose it.

  • Edward Lucas praises Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation and posits it as a model for the future.

  • Far Outliers examines how the British and Tahitians managed their 1767 first contact and what things were like on Fiji after the 2000 coup.

  • At A Fistful of Euros, Edward Hugh argues that the Euro will face serious problems in southern Europe, especially in Spain.

  • Hunting Monsters reports on worrying political tumult in Somaliland.

  • The Pagan Prattle reports on yet another revival of the Satanic cult abuse meme.

  • Window on Eurasia reports that the remittances sent by migrants to Russia from poorer post-Soviet states have decreased by a third, causing serious issues in their homelands.

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[LINK] Some Friday links

Apr. 10th, 2009 12:40 pm
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  • Centauri Dreams observes that astronomers have noticed shortfalls of hydrogen cyanide, a checmial that's a critical precursor to DNA, around red dwarf stars, with obvious implication for life on those stars' worlds.

  • Far Outliers takes a look at language reivval movements among the Tokelauans of Hawai'i.

  • A Fistful of Euros observes that the IMF would think it best for the new EU member-states in the east to immediately adopt the Euro.

  • Hunting Monsters takes a look at the self-declared country of Northern Cyprus.

  • Edward Lucas argues that the tax-shelter microstates of western Europe aren't so different from the unrecognized republics of the former Soviet Union, in that both classes exist to provide loopholes and exceptions for elites.

  • Mark MacKinnon argues that the Orange and Rose Revolutions didn't break from the political pasts of Georgia and Ukraine, but that it merely restarted these countries' political cycles.

  • Otto Pohl reports on the Germans of Turkmenistan, a population spared the Stalinist wartime deportations of Germans to central Asia because they were already in Central Asia.

  • Towleroad notes that a Polish conservative politician is outraged that the Poznan Zoo bought a young elephant male widely suspected of being gay.

  • Window on Eurasia observes that Central Asia's Aral Sea is now becoming the world's youngest desert, the Aralkum, with calamitous environmental and ultimately political effects. Also, the blog wonders if Chechnya's leader Ramzan Kadyrov might be quietly maneuvering to create an independent Chechnya.

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