- JSTOR Daily provides advice for users of Zotero and Scrivener, here.
- JSTOR Daily looks at instances where product placement in pop culture went badly, here.
- JSTOR Daily considers the import of a pioneering study of vulgar language in the context of popular culture studies, here.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the--frankly terrible--policies of managing rival heirs in the Ottoman dynasty, here.
- JSTOR Daily looks at generational divides on religion in the England of the early Protestant Reformation, here.
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Dec. 26th, 2019 11:51 am- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that Betelgeuse is very likely not on the verge of a supernova, here.
- Centauri Dreams looks at the mapping of asteroid Bennu.
- Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber reposted, after the election, a 2013 essay looking at the changes in British society from the 1970s on.
- The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links about the Precambrian Earth, here.
- Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about fear in the context of natural disasters, here.
- Far Outliers reports on the problems of privateers versus regular naval units.
- Gizmodo looks at galaxy MAMBO-9, which formed a billion years after the Big Bang.
- io9 writes about the alternate history space race show For All Mankind.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the posters used in Ghana in the 1980s to help promote Hollywood movies.
- Language Hat links to a new book that examines obscenity and gender in 1920s Britain.
- Language Log looks at the terms used for the national language in Xinjiang.
- Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money takes issue with Jeff Jacoby's lack of sympathy towards people who suffer from growing inequality.
- Marginal Revolution suggests that urbanists should have an appreciation for Robert Moses.
- Sean Marshall writes, with photos, about his experiences riding a new Bolton bus.
- Caryl Philips at the NYR Daily writes about Rachmanism, a term wrongly applied to the idea of avaricious landlords like Peter Rachman, an immigrant who was a victim of the Profumo scandal.
- The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper looking at the experience of aging among people without families.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why the empty space in an atom can never be removed.
- Strange Maps shares a festive map of London, a reindeer, biked by a cyclist.
- Window on Eurasia notes how Mongolia twice tried to become a Soviet republic.
- Arnold Zwicky considers different birds with names starting with x.
[NEWS] Twenty news links
Dec. 23rd, 2019 09:43 pm- NOW Toronto looks at the Pickering nuclear plant and its role in providing fuel for space travel.
- In some places like California, traffic is so bad that airlines actually play a role for high-end commuters. CBC reports.
- Goldfish released into the wild are a major issue for the environment in Québec, too. CTV News reports.
- China's investments in Jamaica have good sides and bad sides. CBC reports.
- A potato museum in Peru might help solve world hunger. The Guardian reports.
- Is the Alberta-Saskatchewan alliance going to be a lasting one? Maclean's considers.
- Is the fossil fuel industry collapsing? The Tyee makes the case.
- Should Japan and Europe co-finance a EUrasia trade initiative to rival China's? Bloomberg argues.
- Should websites receive protection as historically significant? VICE reports.
- Food tourism in the Maritimes is a very good idea. Global News reports.
- Atlantic Canada lobster exports to China thrive as New England gets hit by the trade war. CBC reports.
- The Bloc Québécois experienced its revival by drawing on the same demographics as the provincial CAQ. Maclean's reports.
- Population density is a factor that, in Canada, determines political issues, splitting urban and rural voters. The National Observer observes.
- US border policies aimed against migration from Mexico have been harming businesses on the border with Canada. The National Post reports.
- The warming of the ocean is changing the relationship of coastal communities with their seas. The Conversation looks.
- Archival research in the digital age differs from what occurred in previous eras. The Conversation explains.
- The Persian-language Wikipedia is an actively contested space. Open Democracy reports.
- Vox notes how the US labour shortage has been driven partly by workers quitting the labour force, here.
- Laurie Penny at WIRED has a stirring essay about hope, about the belief in some sort of future.
- A historic bridge over the Credit River in Mississauga, happily, will not be demolished but instead will be repaired. CBC reports.
- Now that automobile production has stopped at the Oshawa General Motors plant, what will become of that city? CBC reports.
- The auditor-general of Ontario will investigate the claimed costs that led to the cancellation of the Hamilton LRT. Global News reports.
- A new bus route now connects London, Ontario, to Sarnia. Global News reports.
- Kingstonist reports that filming for the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery has just finished up in Kingston, at the pen.
- Joe Buongiorno writes at CBC Montreal at his, specifically Italian Canadian, experiences with the Jean Talon Market in Montréal.
- Le Devoir notes that many radio stations in Québec City are leading opposition to the proposed streetcar system.
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links
Dec. 22nd, 2019 05:48 am- Some of the apartments hit by the Gosford apartment fire have been repaired and opened to their tenants again. Global News reports.
- Steve Munro maps the 70 O'Connor bus route in action as a case study, here.
- Condo developers have created the new neighbourhood of "West St. Clair West" out of, among other established neighbourhoods, Carleton Village. blogTO reports.
- The plans for the controversial new Pharrell Williams condo development at Yonge and Eglinton look interesting. blogTO shares.
- Should Toronto have free public mass transit? NOW Toronto makes the case.
- Brian Doucet at Spacing Toronto takes a look at the Toronto CLRV streetcars in their North American context, here.
- The repeated flooding of the Toronto Islands, as NOW Toronto points out, surely demonstrates the reality of climate change for Toronto.
[BLOG] Some Friday links
Dec. 22nd, 2019 05:41 am- Charlie Stross at Antipope shares an essay he recently presented on artificial intelligence and its challenges for us.
- P. Kerim Friedman writes at {anthro}dendum about the birth of the tea ceremony in the Taiwan of the 1970s.
- Anthropology net reports on a cave painting nearly 44 thousand years old in Indonesia depicting a hunting story.
- Architectuul looks at some temporary community gardens in London.
- Bad Astronomy reports on the weird history of asteroid Ryugu.
- The Buzz talks about the most popular titles borrowed from the Toronto Public Library in 2019.
- Caitlin Kelly talks at the Broadside Blog about her particular love of radio.
- Centauri Dreams talks about the role of amateur astronomers in searching for exoplanets, starting with LHS 1140 b.
- John Quiggin at Crooked Timber looks at what is behind the rhetoric of "virtue signalling".
- Dangerous Minds shares concert performance from Nirvana filmed the night before the release of Nevermind.
- Bruce Dorminey notes new evidence that, even before the Chixculub impact, the late Cretaceous Earth was staggering under environmental pressures.
- Myron Strong at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about how people of African descent in the US deal with the legacies of slavery in higher education.
- Far Outliers reports on the plans in 1945 for an invasion of Japan by the US.
- L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing gathers together a collection of the author's best writings there.
- Gizmodo notes the immensity of the supermassive black hole, some 40 billion solar masses, at the heart of galaxy Holm 15A 700 million light-years away.
- Russell Arben Fox at In Media Res writes about the issue of how Wichita is to organize its civic politics.
- io9 argues that the 2010s were a decade where the culture of the spoiler became key.
- The Island Review points readers to the podcast Mother's Blood, Sister's Songs, an exploration of the links between Ireland and Iceland.
- Joe. My. God. reports on the claim of the lawyer of the killer of a mob boss that the QAnon conspiracy inspired his actions. This strikes me as terribly dangerous.
- JSTOR Daily looks at a study examining scholarly retractions.
- Language Hat shares an amusing cartoon illustrating the relationships of the dialects of Arabic.
- Language Log lists ten top new words in the Japanese language.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the dissipation of American diplomacy by Trump.
- The LRB Blog looks at the many problems in Sparta, Greece, with accommodating refugees, for everyone concerned.
- Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting the decline of the one-child policy in China has diminished child trafficking, among other crimes.
- Sean Marshall, looking at transit in Brampton, argues that transit users need more protection from road traffic.
- Russell Darnley shares excerpts from essays he wrote about the involvement of Australia in the Vietnam War.
- Peter Watts talks about his recent visit to a con in Sofia, Bulgaria, and about the apocalypse, here.
- The NYR Daily looks at the corporatization of the funeral industry, here.
- Diane Duane writes, from her own personal history with Star Trek, about how one can be a writer who ends up writing for a media franchise.
- Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections considers the job of tasting, and rating, different cuts of lamb.
- The Planetary Society Blog looks at a nondescript observatory in the Mojave desert of California that maps the asteroids of the solar system.
- Roads and Kingdoms interviews Eduardo Chavarin about, among other things, Tijuana.
- Drew Rowsome loves the SpongeBob musical.
- Peter Rukavina announces that Charlottetown has its first public fast charger for electric vehicles.
- The Russian Demographics Blog considers the impact of space medicine, here.
- The Signal reports on how the Library of Congress is making its internet archives more readily available, here.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers how the incredibly isolated galaxy MCG+01-02-015 will decay almost to nothing over almost uncountable eons.
- Strange Company reports on the trial and execution of Christopher Slaughterford for murder. Was there even a crime?
- Strange Maps shares a Coudenhove-Kalergi map imagining the division of the world into five superstates.
- Understanding Society considers entertainment as a valuable thing, here.
- Denis Colombi at Une heure de peine announces his new book, Où va l'argent des pauvres?
- John Scalzi at Whatever looks at how some mailed bread triggered a security alert, here.
- Window on Eurasia reports on the massive amount of remittances sent to Tajikistan by migrant workers, here.
- Arnold Zwicky notes a bizarre no-penguins sign for sale on Amazon.
[BLOG] Five NYR Daily links (@nyr_daily)
Dec. 19th, 2019 07:55 pm- Garry Wills writes at the NYR Daily about the history of impeachment, here.
- David Rieff writes at the NYR about Peronism and the new president, in Argentina, here.
- The NYR Daily looks at the disaster soon to be visited by Brexit on Northern Ireland, here.
- Matt Seaton writes at the NYR Daily about what the recent British election reveals about the failing health of social democracy in England.
- The NYR Daily looks at the new movie Atlantics, which looks at migration and Africa.
- A new storyboard in Niagara Falls displays the importance of railways to the city. The Niagara Falls Review reports.
- Niagara Falls city council is considering the idea of linking casinos by aerial car. The Niagara Falls Review reports.
- Global News reports on a drug bust that saw two people arrested in Niagara Falls.
- The Niagara Falls Review reports the number of reported homicides in Niagara Region tripled in 2019, to six.
- The immersive live nativity hosted by a Niagara Falls church sounds interesting. More is here.
- A recent discussion at Niagara Falls city council was dominated by discussion of housing issues and of homelessness. The Niagara Falls Review reports.
- Most revenues from the casinos of Niagara Falls have been directed to the infrastructure of the city. The Niagara Falls Review reports.
- City council in Niagara Falls has approved the construction of a 72-storey hotel. Construct Connect reports.
- In November, the mayor announced the old city hall and courthouse in the downtown of Niagara Falls was scheduled to be demolished. The Niagara Falls Review reports.
- The Bath House Hotel once was intended to be a centrepiece of local tourism. The Niagara Falls Review reports.
- Carrie Bosco writes about the experience of a customer service associate working at the Niagara Falls Public Library, over at the Niagara Falls Review.
- The Niagara Falls Public Library in winter is a happening place for locals. The Niagara Falls Review reports.
- A Chinese developer hopes that a proposed $C 1.5 billion dollar project in south Niagara Falls will still go forward. The Niagara Falls Review reports.
- Niagara Falls is going to have a hard time replacing city historian Sherman Zavitz. The Niagaa Falls Review reports.
- Niagara News reports on the Winter Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls.
- La Presse carries the concern of a Québec journalist that the decline of daily papers could have a catastrophic impact on the province's culture.
- The Québec government would like financially-stressed newspaper group to form a coop. CTV News reports.
- That the Toronto Star shut down its free Metro affiliates across Canada made the news in Halifax. CBC reports.
- The closure of the Transcontinental Media printing plant in Borden-Carleton means that PEI no longer has a local printer for its media. CBC reports.
- Sabrina Wilkinson writes at The Conversation about the increasingly tenuous nature of journalism in Canada, not least as an employer.
- This Alex Migdal piece looks at how Guelph, Ontario, has fared since the closure of the Guelph Mercury daily.
- The town of Innisfil is looking forward to some very futuristic developments. Global News reports.
- Jeremy Deaton at CityLab reports on how, buffered by the Great Lakes, Buffalo NY may end gaining from climate change.
- The Ottawa chain Bridgehead Coffee has been sold to national chain Second Cup. Global News reports.
- Many of the more eye-raising installations in the Gay Village of Montréal have since been removed. CTV News reports.
- Warming huts for homeless people in Winnipeg were torn down because the builders did not follow procedures. Global News reports.
- Open Democracy looks at innovative new public governance of the city budget in Amsterdam, here.
- Singapore, located in a well-positioned Southeast Asia and with working government, may take over from Hong Kong. Bloomberg View makes the case.
[BLOG] Some Friday links
Dec. 6th, 2019 04:48 pm- Architectuul looks at the Portuguese architectural cooperative Ateliermob, here.
- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at how white dwarf WD J091405.30+191412.25 is literally vapourizing a planet in close orbit.
- Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog
explains - Centauri Dreams looks at the slowing of the solar wind far from the Sun.
- John Holbo at Crooked Timber considers the gap between ideals and actuals in the context of conspiracies and politics.
- The Dragon's Tales reports on how the ESA is trying to solve a problem with the parachutes of the ExoMars probe.
- Far Outliers reports on what Harry Truman thought about politicians.
- Gizmodo reports on a new method for identifying potential Earth-like worlds.
- io9 pays tribute to legendary writer, of Star Trek and much else, D.C. Fontana.
- The Island Review reports on the football team of the Chagos Islands.
- Joe. My. God. reports that gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy will compete for the United Kingdom in 2020.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how early English imperialists saw America and empire through the lens of Ireland.
- Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money does not like Pete Buttigieg.
- The LRB Blog looks at the London Bridge terrorist attack.
- The Map Room Blog shares a map of Prince William Sound, in Alaska, that is already out of date because of global warming.
- Marginal Revolution questions if Cuba, in the Philippines, is the most typical city in the world.
- The NYR Daily looks at gun violence among Arab Israelis.
- The Planetary Society Blog considers what needs to be researched next on Mars.
- Roads and Kingdoms tells the story of Sister Gracy, a Salesian nun at work in South Sudan.
- The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper noting continued population growth expected in much of Europe, and the impact of this growth on the environment.
- Strange Maps shares a map of fried chicken restaurants in London.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why a 70 solar mass black hole is not unexpected.
- John Scalzi at Whatever gives his further thoughts on the Pixel 4.
- Window on Eurasia notes that, last year, 37 thousand Russians died of HIV/AIDS.
- Arnold Zwicky starts from a consideration of the 1948 film Kind Hearts and Coronets.
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
Dec. 3rd, 2019 03:12 pm- NOW Toronto reports on the long-time independent weekly's sale to a venture capital firm, here.
- The Yonge-Eglinton Centre now hosts a venue where people can nap in peace. Toronto Life has photos, here.
- The family of North York van attack victim Anne-Marie D'Amico hopes to raise one million dollars for a women's shelter. The National Post reports.
- Toronto Community Housing, after a terrible accident, has banned its tenants from having window air conditioners. Global News reports.
- blogTO reports on the ridiculous heights to which surge pricing took ride fares on Uber and Lyft during yesterday morning's shutdown.
- blogTO notes that the Ontario government has provided funding to study the idea of extension of the Eglinton Crosstown west to Pearson Airport.
- CBC reports on suggestions that Kingston should plan for a population expected to grow significantly in coming decades, to not just expand but to have intensified development downtown.
- The rental housing market for Kingston is very tight, not only because of large student populations. Global News reports.
- Kingstonist reports on Queen's plans to build a large new student residence on Albert Street, here.
- The Whig-Standard carries an account of the new Queen's principal being interrogated by Kingston city council over issues of friction between school and city, including costs for policing (and not only at Homecoming weekend).
- This summer, farmers in the Kingston area saw poor crop production as a consequence of the weather. Global News reports.
- Happily, the budget of the city of Kingston was made to accommodate costs for Murney, the police force's horse. Global News reports.
- Weston Food's plant in Kingston has seen forty jobs cut. Global News reports.
- Lake Ontario Park, in the west of the city, may be reopened to limited camping. The Whig-Standard reports.
- Kingston hockey player Rebecca Thompson is now playing for the team of Queen's. Global News reports.
- Queen's University is not alone in urging its exchange students in Hong Kong to evacuate. The Whig-Standard reports.
- Yesterday, a plane crashed in the west of Kingston, killing all seven people aboard. CBC reports.
- Chris Morris at Kingstonist has a long feature examining the Kingston Street Mission, interviewing outreach worker Marilyn McLean about her work with the homeless of the city.
- Kingston-born street nurse Cathy Crowe talks about homelessness, in Kingston and across Canada. Global News reports.
- The family of Royal Military College cadet Joe Grozelle, who disappeared from his campus and was later found dead two decades ago, wants his fate reinvestigated. Global News reports.
- A hundred students at a Kingston public school are being taught how to skate, part of a pilot program. Global News reports.
[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links
Nov. 28th, 2019 02:57 pm- Google has apologized for the negative shade its image search cast on Scarborough with a Twitter thread. Global News reports.
- The National Post looks at the story of the architecturally remarkable Integral House, on sale for $C 21.5 million.
- South Indian Dosa Mahal, a beloved Bloordale restaurant apparently displaced by landlords, has found a new home. blogTO reports.
- The infamous Parkdale McDonald, at King and Dufferin, has officially been closed down, relocated. blogTO reports.
- The Ontario Cannabis Store is experimenting with a same-day delivery program. NOW Toronto reports.
- Lia Grainger writes at NOW Toronto about how poor city planning has resulted in multiple dangerous intersections. (I know of two in my broader neighbourhood.)
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
Nov. 28th, 2019 02:48 pm- Bad Astronomy notes the very odd structure of galaxy NGC 2775.
- Dangerous Minds reports on the 1987 riot by punks that wrecked a Seattle ferry.
- Bruce Dorminey reports on a new suggestion from NASA that the massive dust towers of Mars have helped dry out that world over eons.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how changing technologies have led to younger people spending more social capital on maintaining relationships with friends over family.
- This forum hosted at Gizmodo considers the likely future causes of death of people in coming decades.
- In Media Res' Russell Arben Fox reports on the debate in Wichita on what to do with the Century II performance space.
- Joe. My. God. reports on the decision of Hungary to drop out of Eurovision, apparently because of its leaders' homophobia.
- JSTOR Daily reports on the debunking of the odd theory that the animals and people of the Americas were degenerate dwarfs.
- Language Hat reports on how the classics can be served by different sorts of translation.
- Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers how Trump's liberation of war criminals relates to folk theories about just wars.
- The LRB Blog reports from the ground in the Scotland riding of East Dunbartonshire.
- Marginal Revolution shares a paper suggesting that, contrary to much opinion, social media might actually hinder the spread of right-wing populism.
- The NYR Daily looks at the nature of the proxy fighters in Syria of Turkey. Who are they?
- Drew Rowsome interviews Sensational Sugarbum, star of--among other things--the latest Ross Petty holiday farce.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why we still need to be able to conduct astronomy from the Earth.
- Strange Maps explains the odd division of Europe between east and west, as defined by different subspecies of mice.
- Window on Eurasia notes how Chinese apparently group Uighurs in together with other Central Asians of similar language and religion.
- Arnold Zwicky explores the concept of onomatomania.
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links
Nov. 27th, 2019 02:17 pm- A beautiful Toronto would be nice, but this goal will take planning. The Toronto Star reports.
- Sean Marshall writes about the sad ironies of suburban neighbourhoods in Toronto unsafe for pedestrians.
- Jamie Bradburn takes a look at Davenport Road in the past, here.
- Transit Toronto notes the arrival tomorrow in the GTA of the Holiday Trains of the CPR, part of a fundraising campaign for foodbanks.
- Spacing shares an essay considering the idea of a map of Toronto according to runnability.
- Sidekick West, a new comic shop in the Junction Triangle, has unfortunately closed down. blogTO reports.
- Toronto Life breaks down the references in the massive 10-story mural painted by BirdO at Yonge and St. Clair.
[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links
Nov. 26th, 2019 06:09 pm- John Lorinc at Spacing considers the complication idea of a city charter for Toronto. Is it worth it? Does it ignore other governance issues?
- Tourism is booming in Toronto, transforming the economy of the metropolis. The Toronto Star reports.
- NOW Toronto notes how the Toronto District School Board is introducing educational courses intended to prepare students for careers in hospitality.
- Legal controversy surrounding the governance of Mount Pleasant Cemetery, and other like cemeteries in Toronto, is ongoing. The Toronto Star reports.
- In Milton, the owner of an illegal rooming house where one tenant died has been found financially liable. CBC reports.
- The Toronto Star tells the story of soldiers returning from the First World War who attacked Chinatown and its inhabitants, here.
- NOW Toronto points to an exhibition of photos created in solidarity with Hong Kong journalists.
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Nov. 26th, 2019 05:57 pm- Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares a stunning photo taken by a friend of the Pleiades star cluster.
- The Buzz, at the Toronto Public Library, shares a collection of books suitable for World Vegan Month, here.
- Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber considers, with an eye towards China and the Uighurs, how panopticon attempts can stray badly on account of--among other things--false assumptions.
- Gizmodo considers how antimatter could end up providing interesting information about the unseen universe.
- Joe. My. God. reports from New York City, where new HIV cases are dropping sharply on account of PrEP.
- JSTOR Daily shares a vintage early review of Darwin's Origin of Species.
- Language Hat examines the origins of the semicolon, in Venice in 1494.
- Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a critical report of the new Jill Lepore book These Truths.
- The LRB Blog reports from the Museum of Corruption in Kyiv, devoted to the corruption of the ancient regime in Ukraine.
- Marginal Revolution shares a new history of the Lakota.
- The NYR Daily looks at the photography of Duane Michals.
- The Russian Demographics Blog looks at population trends in Russia, still below 1991 totals in current frontiers.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why some of the lightest elements, like lithium, are so rare.
- Window on Eurasia shares the opinion of a Russian historian that Eastern Europe is back as a geopolitical zone.
- Arnold Zwicky considers Jacques Transue in the light of other pop culture figures and trends.
[BLOG] Some Monday links
Nov. 25th, 2019 05:51 pm- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait observes that a team may have discovered the elusive neutron star produced by Supernova 1987A, hidden behind a cloud of dust.
- Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber shares a photo he made via the time-consuming 19th century wet-plate collodion method.
- Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage looks at the Apollo 12 visit to the Surveyor 3 site to, among other things, see what it might suggest about future space archeology.
- Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the story of rural poverty facing a family in Waverly, Ohio, observing how it is a systemic issue.
- George Dvorsky at Gizmodo looks at how Mars' Jezero crater seems to have had a past relatively friendly to life, good for the next NASA rover.
- Joe. My. God. reports on the latest ignorance displayed by Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter, this time regarding HIV.
- JSTOR Daily looks at how Climategate was used to undermine popular opinion on climate change.
- Language Hat links to an article explaining why so many works of classical literature were lost, among other things not making it onto school curricula.
- Language Log shares a photo of a Muji eraser with an odd English label.
- Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests Pete Buttigieg faces a campaign-limiting ceiling to his support among Democrats.
- The LRB Blog argues that Macron's blocking of EU membership possibilities for the western Balkans is a terrible mistake.
- The Map Room Blog shares a map depicting regional variations in Canada towards anthropogenic climate change. Despite data issues, the overall trend of oil-producing regions being skeptical is clear.
- Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the slowing pace of labour mobility in the US, suggesting that home attachment is a key factor.
- Frederic Wehrey at the NYR Daily tells the story of Knud Holmboe, a Danish journalist who came to learn about the Arab world working against Italy in Libya.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why thermodynamics does not explain our perception of time.
- Understanding Society's Dan Little looks at Electronic Health Records and how they can lead to medical mistakes.
- Whatever's John Scalzi shares a remarkable photo of the night sky he took using the astrophotography mode on his Pixel 4 phone.
- Window on Eurasia shares an opinion that the Intermarium countries, between Germany and Russia, can no longer count on the US and need to organize in their self-defense.
- Arnold Zwicky shares a photo of his handsome late partner Jacques Transue, taken as a college student.