rfmcdonald | Entries tagged with second world war

JSTOR Daily considers whether koalas are actually going extinct, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at the life and accomplishments of Alexander Von Humboldt, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at how a move to California doomed the Oneida Community, here.

JSTOR Daily considers how the genetically diverse wild relatives of current crops could help our agriculture, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at the devastating flood of Florence in 1966, here.

JSTOR Daily points out there is no template for emotional intelligence, here.

JSTOR Daily explores some remarkable lumpy pearls, here.

JSTOR Daily notes an 1870 scare over the future of men, here.

JSTOR Daily reports on the staging of war scenes for the 1945 documentary The Battle of San Pietro, here.

JSTOR Daily considers the bioethics of growing human brains in a petri dish, here.

Bad Astronomer notes the latest news on interstellar comet 2/Borisov.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly emphasizes how every writer does need an editor.

Centauri Dreams notes how the gas giant GJ 3512 b, half the mass of Jupiter orbiting a red dwarf star closely, is an oddly massive exoplanet.

Gina Schouten at Crooked Timber looks at inter-generational clashes on parenting styles.

D-Brief looks at the methods of agriculture that could conceivably sustain a populous human colony on Mars.

Bruce Dorminey argues that we on Earth need something like Starfleet Academy, to help us advance into space.

Colby King at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how the socio-spatial perspective helps us understand the development of cities.

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io9 looks at Proxima, a contemporary spaceflight film starring Eva Green.

JSTOR Daily looks at how the intense relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia began in, and reflected, the era of Jim Crow.

Language Hat notes a report suggesting that multilingualism helps ward off dementia.

Language Log takes issue with the names of the mascots of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the emergence of a ninth woman complaining about being harassed by Al Franken.

Marginal Revolution links to a new paper arguing that the Washington Consensus worked.

The NYR Daily shares an Aubrey Nolan cartoon illustrating the evacuation of war children in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.

At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane shares a nice collection of links for digital mapmakers.

The Planetary Society Blog looks at how the European Space Agency supports the cause of planetary defense.

Roads and Kingdoms interviews Kenyan writer Kevin Mwachiro at length.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on how a mysterious fast radio burst helped illuminate an equally mysterious galactic halo.

Strange Company reports on the mysterious and unsolved death in 1936 of Canadian student Thomas Moss in an Oxfordshire hayrick.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes how Mount Etna is a surpassingly rare decipoint.

Understanding Society considers the thought of Kojève, after Hegel, on freedom.

Window on Eurasia looks at the falling numbers of Russians, and of state support for Russian language and culture, in independent Central Asia.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at how individual consumer responses are much less effective than concerted collective action in triggering change.

Arnold Zwicky reports on some transgender fashion models.

Bad Astronomy notes the remarkably eccentric orbit of gas giant HR 5138b.

Centauri Dreams notes the impact that large-scale collisions have on the evolution of planets.

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber noted yesterday that babies born on September 11th in 2001 are now 18 years old, adults.

The Crux notes that some of the hominins in the Sima de los Huesos site in Spain, ancestors to Neanderthals, may have been murdered.

D-Brief reports on the cryodrakon, a pterosaur that roamed the skies above what is now Canada 77 million years ago.

Dangerous Minds looks at the political artwork of Jan Pötter.

Gizmodo notes a poll suggesting a majority of Britons would support actively seeking to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations.

io9 has a loving critical review of the first Star Trek movie.

JSTOR Daily shares, from April 1939, an essay by the anonymous head of British intelligence looking at the international context on the eve of the Second World War.

Language Log notes a recent essay on the mysterious Voynich manuscript, one concluding that it is almost certainly a hoax of some kind.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the future of the labour movement in the United States.

Marginal Revolution considers what sort of industrial policy would work for the United States.

Yardena Schwartz writes at NYR Daily about the potential power of Arab voters in Israel.

Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections explains why, despite interest, Australia did not launch a space program in the 1980s.

Drew Rowsome provides a queer review of It: Chapter Two.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how government censorship of science doomed the Soviet Union and could hurt the United States next.

Window on Eurasia notes how, in the Volga republics, recent educational policy changes have marginalized non-Russian languages.

Arnold Zwicky shares a glossy, fashion photography-style, reimagining of the central relationship in the James Baldwin classic Giovanni's Room, arranged by Hilton Als.

Anthro{dendum} features an essay examining trauma and resiliency as encountered in ethnographic fieldwork.

Architectuul highlights a new project seeking to promote historic churches built in the United Kingdom in the 20th century.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait examines Ahuna Mons, a muddy and icy volcano on Ceres, and looks at the nebula Westerhout 40.

Centauri Dreams notes the recent mass release of data from a SETI project, and notes the discovery of two vaguely Earth-like worlds orbiting the very dim Teegarden's Star, just 12 light-years away.

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes that having universities as a safe space for trans people does not infringe upon academic freedom.

The Crux looks at the phenomenon of microsleep.

D-Brief notes evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy was warped a billion years ago by a collision with dark matter-heavy dwarf galaxy Antlia 2, and notes a robotic fish powered by a blood analogue.

The Dragon's Tales notes that India plans on building its own space station.

Earther notes the recording of the song of the endangered North Pacific right whale.

The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the role of emotional labour in leisure activities.

Far Outliers looks at how Japan prepared for the Battle of the Leyte Gulf in 1944.

Gizmodo looks at astronomers' analysis of B14-65666, an ancient galactic collision thirteen billion light-years away, and notes that the European Space Agency has a planned comet interception mission.

io9 notes how the plan for Star Trek in the near future is to not only have more Star Trek, but to have many different kinds of Star Trek for different audiences.

Joe. My. God. notes the observation of Pete Buttigieg that the US has probably already had a gay president.

JSTOR Daily looks at the many ways in which the rhetoric of Celtic identity has been used, and notes that the archerfish uses water ejected from its eyes to hunt.

Language Hat looks at why Chinese is such a hard language to learn for second-language learners, and looks at the Suso monastery in Spain, which played a key role in the coalescence of the Spanish language.

Language Log looks at the complexities of katakana.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the death of deposed Egypt president Mohammed Morsi looks like a slow-motion assassination, and notes collapse of industrial jobs in the Ohio town of Lordstown, as indicative of broader trends.

The LRB Blog looks at the death of Mohamed Morsi.

The Map Rom Blog shares a new British Antarctic Survey map of Greenland and the European Arctic.

Marginal Revolution notes how non-religious people are becoming much more common in the Middle East, and makes the point that the laying of cable for the transatlantic telegraph is noteworthy technologically.

Noah Smith at Noahpionion takes the idea of the Middle East going through its own version of the Thirty Years War seriously. What does this imply?

The NYR Daily takes a look at a Lebanon balanced somehow on the edge, and looks at the concentration camp system of the United States.

The Planetary Society Blog explains what people should expect from LightSail 2, noting that the LightSail 2 has launched.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw points readers to his stories on Australian spy Harry Freame.

Rocky Planet explains, in the year of the Apollo 50th anniversary, why the Moon matters.

Drew Rowsome reviews, and praises, South African film Kanarie, a gay romp in the apartheid era.

The Russian Demographics Blog links to a paper examining the relationship between childcare and fertility in Belgium, and looks at the nature of statistical data from Turkmenistan.

The Strange Maps Blog shares a map highlighting different famous people in the United States.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why different galaxies have different amounts of dark matter, and shares proof that the Apollo moon landings actually did happen.

Towleroad notes the new evidence that poppers, in fact, are not addictive.

Window on Eurasia warns about the parlous state of the Volga River.

Arnold Zwicky takes an extended look at the mid-20th century gay poet Frank O'Hara.

D-Brief considers the possibility that human food when eaten by bears, by shortening their hibernation periods, might contribute to their premature aging.

The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the political power of sports and of music.

Far Outliers notes the rising bourgeoisie of Calcutta in the 1990s.

Steve Roby at The Fifteenth makes the case for Discovery as worthy of being considered Star Trek, not least because it is doing something new.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing notes how our tendency to track our lives through data can become dystopian.

JSTOR Daily notes that Illinois is starting to become home to resident populations of bald eagles.

Language Log takes a look at Ubykh.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a Trumpist Canadian border guard.

The New APPS Blog notes how helicopter parenting is linked to rising levels of inequality.

The NYR Daily considers Jasper Johns.

At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane considers the rhythms and cycles of life generally and of being a writer specifically.

Otto Pohl looks at how people from the different German communities of southeast Europe were, at the end of the Second World War, taken to the Soviet Union as forced labourers.

Steve Maynard writes at Spacing, in the aftermath of the death of Jackie Shane, about the erasure and recovery of non-white queer history in Toronto.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains what would happen if someone fell into a blackhole.

Window on Eurasia notes that the number of immigrants to Russia are falling, with Ukrainians diminishing particularly in number while Central Asian numbers remain more resistant to the trend.

Arnold Zwicky notes the telling omission of sexual orientation as a protected category re: hate crimes.

Reddit's imaginarymaps forum has a lot of great alternate history maps.

This r/imaginarymaps map depicts a Dutch Formosa crica 1900.

This creation imagines a joint German-Polish invasion of the Soviet Union.

this map imagines a different Cold War, with a largely Communist Germany opposed by a Franco-British Union.

This map of an alternate Cold War circa 1960 that actually made it into a history book as our timeline

This map shows the remarkably fragmented Central America of Marvel Comics's famous Earth-616.

I am not quite sure I buy the argument of Nick Cave at Vice's Motherboard that artificial intelligence will never be able to write a great song.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a soundtrack of Lisbon pop songs, in a variety of genres.

CBC reports on the remarkable recovery of a collection of Yiddish-language songs from the Second World War that led to a Grammy nomination.

Rolling Stone reports< on the work that went into the last, and final, album of the Cranberries following the untimely death last year of Dolores O'Riordan.

At Global News, Alan Cross writes about the psychological and even therapeutic effects of different sorts of music.

JSTOR Daily looks at how Buddhism came to the United States, first brought by immigrants and then embraced as an alternative by the avant-garde.

JSTOR Daily looks at the influence of the French Resistance on the playwriting of Samuel Beckett, himself a member of the underground.

JSTOR Daily looks at the many different metaphors used to try to illuminate Brexit.

JSTOR Daily notes that seal-watching boat expeditions need to give the seals more privacy, to avoid overstressing them and exposing them to the risks of fatigue.

JSTOR Daily looks at how letter-writing, as a literary form, has been so strongly associated with women and the feminine.

Anthrodendum reviews the book Fistula Politics, the latest from the field of medical anthropology.

Architectuul takes a look at post-war architecture in Germany, a country where the devastation of the war left clean slates for ambitious new designers and architects.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at newly discovered Kuiper Belt object 2008 VG 18.

Laura Agustín at Border Thinking takes a look at the figure of the migrant sex worker.

Centauri Dreams features an essay by Al Jackson celebrating the Apollo 8 moon mission.

D-Brief notes how physicists manufactured a quark soup in a collider to study the early universe.

Dangerous Minds shares some photos of a young David Bowie.

Angelique Harris at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at what the social sciences have to say about sexuality and dating among millennial Americans.

Gizmodo notes the odd apparent smoothness of Ultima Thule, target of a very close flyby by New Horizons on New Year's Day.

Hornet Stories notes the censorship-challenging art by Slava Mogutin available from the Tom of Finland store.

Imageo shares orbital imagery of the eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia, trigger of a devastating volcanic tsunami.

Nick Stewart at The Island Review writes beautifully about his experience crossing the Irish Sea on a ferry, from Liverpool to Belfast.

Lyman Stone at In A State of Migration shares the story, with photos, of his recent whirlwind trip to Vietnam.

JSTOR Daily considers whether or not fan fiction might be a useful tool to promote student literacy.

Language Hat notes a contentious reconstruction of the sound system of obscure but fascinating Tocharian, an extinct Indo-European language from modern XInjiang.

Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the irreversible damage being caused by the Trump Administration to the United States' foreign policy.

Marginal Revolution notes a paper suggesting users of Facebook would need a payment of at least one thousand dollars to abandon Facebook.

Lisa Nandy at the NYR Daily argues that the citizens of the United Kingdom need desperately to engage with Brexit, to take back control, in order to escape catastrophic consequences from ill-thought policies.

Marc Rayman at the Planetary Society Blog celebrates the life and achievements of the Dawn probe.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that so many Venezuelans are fleeing their country because food is literally unavailable, what with a collapsing agricultural sector.

The Russian Demographics Blog breaks down polling of nostalgia for the Soviet Union among Russians.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that simply finding oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet is not by itself proof of life.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy reports on how the United States is making progress towards ending exclusionary zoning.

Whatever's John Scalzi shares an interview with the lawyer of Santa Claus.

Window on Eurasia reports on a fascinating paper, examining how some Russian immigrants in Germany use Udmurt as a family language.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the lives of two notable members of the Swiss diaspora in Paris' Montmartre.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the black hole-powered "cooling flows" of galaxy cluster Abell 2597.

D-Brief notes that astronomers have, at last, measured the total number of photos emitted by stars in the universe. (Roughly.)

Dead Things notes the discovery of a tool and butchery site of ancient hominids in Algeria, at Ain Boucherit, dating back 2.4 million years.

Far Outliers looks at a Japanese-American's interrogation of old Okinawan classmates.

JSTOR Daily looks at 19th century woman astronomers like Elizabeth Campbell who played a critical role in supporting their husbands' astronomy but were overlooked.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the victims of voter fraud, the members of stigmatized minorities.

Marginal Revolution takes a look at the doctrine of double effect as shown in the TV series Daredevil.

The NYR Daily notes how the language of Trump reflects and fuels the fascist right.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel states the obvious: Science is not fake news.

Window on Eurasia notes five reasons why the Russian's military-industrial complex cannot easily catch up to the United States'.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the history of Swiss Tasmania, a region in the center of the island including the Swiss-themed town of Grindelwald.

In a guest post at Antipope, researcher and novelist Heather Child writes about the extent to which Big Data has moved from science fiction to reality.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the very recent discovery of a massive crater buried under the ice of Greenland, one that may have impacted in the human era and altered world climate. Are there others like it?

Crooked Timber responds to the Brexit proposal being presented to the British parliament. Is this it?

D-Brief notes the discovery of the unusually large and dim, potentially unexplainable, dwarf galaxy Antlia 2 near the Milky Way Galaxy.

Gizmodo notes that the size of mysterious 'Oumuamua was overestimated.

JSTOR Daily looks at the life and achievements of Polish-born scholar Jósef Czapski, a man who miraculously survived the Soviet massacre of Polish officers at Katyn.

At the LRB Blog, Ken Kalfus writes about his father's experience owning a drycleaner in a 1960s complex run by the Trump family.

Marginal Revolution starts a discussion over a recent article in The Atlantic claiming that there has been a sharp drop-off in the sex enjoyed by younger people in the United States (and elsewhere?).

At Roads and Kingdoms, T.M. Brown shares a story of the crazy last night of his bartending days in Manhattan's Alphabet City.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel imagines what the universe would have been like during its youth, during peak star formation.

Strange Maps' Frank Jacobs takes a look at different partition plans for the United States, aiming to split the country into liberal and conservative successor states.

Window on Eurasia notes that some Ingush, after noting the loss of some border territories to neighbouring Chechnya, fear they might get swallowed up by their larger, culturally related, neighbours.

Yorkshire Ranter Alexander Harrowell predicts that there will not be enough Tory MPs in the United Kingdom willing to topple Theresa May over the Brexit deal.

Centauri Dreams looks at the latest images of asteroid Bennu provided by the OSIRIS-REx probe.

The Crux notes the impact of genetic research on theories of language among the Neanderthals. If they were, as seems very likely, users of language, did their language use differ from that of homo sapiens sapiens?

D-Brief notes that climate change leads to changes in the microbiology of soils. (What effect would this have on the environment? Unknown, as of yet.)

The Dragon's Tales notes that the Indian aircraft Vikramaditya has just had its second refit completed.

Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the social construction of geography. How are categories created, for instance?

Far Outliers looks at efforts to educate prisoners of war in the Second World War-era United States, to use them even as test-beds for a wider reeducation of their societies.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing, considering the idea of the society of the spectacle of Debord after the thoughts of Foucault, notes the early prediction of a fusion between surveillance and spectacle, of a fusion between the two.

Hornet Stories notes the anti-gay policies of the government of Tanzania government, arguing that country cannot be allowed to be a second Chechnya.

JSTOR Daily notes how the rhetoric of Richard Nixon helped pave the way for Donald Trump.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money argues that even if the Democratic Party loses today's elections in the United States, Americans should still have hope, should still work for a better future. I wish you all luck, myself.

The Map Room Blog looks at Stanford University's archive of the Maps of the Office of Strategic Studies.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining immigrant success in Sweden, noting the complicating picture of general success: Children of more deprived refugees do better than more favoured ones.

The NYR Daily looks at early feminist Ernestine Rose.

Roads and Kingdoms looks at the work of Cambodian architect Dy Preoung, who during the Khmer Rouge era managed to preserve his work on Angkor Wat.

Drew Rowsome looks at the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, focusing on its queer elements.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines how black holes actually do evaporate.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy notes the signal flaws with the argument that migrants should stay at home and fix their country. (What if they have no chance to, for instance?)

Window on Eurasia notes that the West has a vested interest in the survival of Lukashenka in Belarus, if only because a sudden liberalization could well lead to a Russian invasion.

Nick Rowe at the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative takes a look at "bicycle disequilibrium theory".

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber praises Candice Delmas' new book on the duty of resistance to injustice.

D-Brief looks at how the designers of robots took lessons from wasps in designing a new robotic swarm that can pull relatively massive objects in flight.

Dead Things notes new evidence that the now-extinct elephant birds of Madagascar were nocturnal.

Far Outliers notes how the reeducation of Japanese prisoners of war by Chinese Communists helped influence American policy towards Japan, imagining a Japan that could be reformed away from imperialism.

At the Island Review, Alex Ingram profiles--with photos--some of the many different people who are the lone guardians of different small isolated islands removed from the British mainland.

JSTOR Daily notes how asteroids can preserve records of the distant past of the solar system.

Lawyers, Guns and Money has contempt for Pence's use of Messianic Jews to stand in for the wider, non-Christian, Jewish community.

At Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen considers the consequence that a decline of art galleries might have on the wider field of modern art.

The NYR Daily considers the lessons that Thucydides, writing about Athens, might have for the United States now.

Anjali Kumar at Roads and Kingdoms writes about a meal of technically illegal craft beer served with raw shrimp in Bangkok.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel illustrates the six different ways a star can end up in a supernova.

Window on Eurasia notes that official Russian efforts to reach out to the Russian diaspora do not extend to non-Russian minorities' own diasporas, like that of the Circassians of the North Caucasus.

Arnold Zwicky, starting by noting the passing of Dorcas, she who invented green bean casserole, looks at different pre-prepared foodstuffs.

David Price at {anthro}dendum considers, going through archival material from the 1950s, the number of radical anthropologists in the US as yet little known or unknown who were marginalized by the Red Scare.

Centauri Dreams ruminates on a paper examining 'Oumuamua that considers radiation pressure as a factor in its speed. Might it work as--indeed, be?--a lightsail?

D-Brief notes the various reasons why the Chinese proposal for an artificial moon of sorts, to illuminate cities at night, would not work very well at all.

The Dragon's Tales touches on the perhaps hypocritical anger of Russia at the United States' departure from the INF treaty.

Far Outliers notes the sharp divides among Nazi prisoners of war in a camp in Texas, notably between pro- and anti-Nazi prisoners.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing revisits the original sin of the Internet culture, its imagining of a split between an individual's virtual life and the remainder of their life.

The Island Review welcomes, and interviews, its new editor C.C. O'Hanlon.

JSTOR Daily explores the reasons for considering climate change to be a national security issue.
Language Hat is enthused by the recent publication of a new dictionary of the extinct Anatolian languages of the Indo-European family.

Language Log examines the existence of a distinctive, even mocked, southern French accent spoken in and around (among other cities) Toulouse.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the rise of fascism in Brazil with Bolsonaro.

Roger Shuy at Lingua Franca writes about the power of correspondence, of written letters, to help language learners. (I concur.)

At the LRB Blog, Jeremy Bernstein writes about anti-Semitism in the United States, in the 1930s and now.

The NYR Daily examines the life of writer, and long-time exile from her native Portugal, Maria Gabriela Llansol.

Haley Gray at Roads and Kingdoms reports on the life and work of Mark Maryboy, a Navajo land rights activist in Utah.

Window on Eurasia looks at the Russian urban myth of blonde Baltic snipers from the Baltic States who had been enlisted into wars against Russia like that of Chechnya in the 1990s.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the classic red phone booths of the United Kingdom, now almost all removed from the streets of the country and sent to a graveyard in a part of rural Yorkshire that has other claims to fame.

CityLab wonders how the new CAQ government of Québec will come into conflict with Valérie Laplante in Montréal, a city that wants mass transit not highways and that voted against the CAQ.

CityLab considers what could become of The Mall, the neglected central park of Cleveland.

Osaka just cut its ties with San Francisco over that city's erection of a monument honouring the comfort women of Second World War Japan. VICE reports.

This article in Guardian Cities examining the Chinese creation of a virtually new and highly autonomous city, Port City, on Sri Lanka to support China's aspirations in the Indian Ocean is revealing.

Kris Janssens at the Inter Press Service looks at how the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville is being transformed by Chinese investment and trade into a regional metropolis.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at the question of how far, exactly, the Pleiades star cluster is from Earth. It turns out this question breaks down into a lot of interesting secondary issues.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly starts an interesting discussion around the observation that so many people are uncomfortable with the details of their body.

Centauri Dreams reports on the exciting evidence of cryovolcanism at Ceres.

The Crux reports on new suggestions that, although Neanderthals had bigger brains than Homo sapiens, Neanderthal brains were not thereby better brains.

D-Brief notes evidence that the ability of bats and dolphins to echolocate may ultimate derive from a shared gene governing their muscles.

Bruce Dorminey notes that astronomers have used data on the trajectory of 'Oumuamua to suggest it may have come from one of four stars.

Far Outliers explores the Appalachian timber boom of the 1870s that created the economic preconditions for the famed feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys.

Language Hat notes the unique whistling language prevailing among the Khasi people living in some isolated villages in the Indian state of Meghalaya.

Lingua Franca, at the Chronicles, notes that the fastest-growing language in the United States is the Indian language of Telugu.

Jeremy Harding at the LRB Blog writes about the import of the recognition, by Macron, of the French state's involvement in the murder of pro-Algerian independence activist Maurice Audin in 1958.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution praises the diaries of Mihail Sebastian, a Romanian Jewish intellectual alive during the Second World War

The New APPS Blog takes a look at the concept of the carnival from Bakhtin.

Gabrielle Bellot at NYR Daily considers the life of Elizabeth Bishop and Bishop's relationship to loneliness.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog describes how CubeSats were paired with solar sails to create a Mars probe, Mars Cube One.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers some possible responses from the left to a conservative Supreme Court in the US.

Roads and Kingdoms takes a look at the challenges facing the street food of Xi'an.

Rocky Planet examines why, for decades, geologists mistakenly believed that the California ground was bulging pre-earthquake in Palmdale.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines how some objects called stars, like neutron stars and white dwarfs and brown dwarfs, actually are not stars.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes how China and Europe stand out as being particularly irreligious on a world map of atheism.

Window on Eurasia notes the instability that might be created in the North Caucasus by a border change between Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Arnold Zwicky shares some beautiful pictures of flowers from a garden in Palo Alto.

Ici Radio-Canada notes the stiff competition that the port of Montréal is facing from its American competitors.

JSTOR Daily reports on the solidarities created among diverse groups in London by the effects of the Blitz.

Window on Eurasia notes the paranoia of some commentators and power figures about the emergence of ethnic neighbourhoods in Moscow, Central Asians featuring particularly.

Guardian Cities notes that Bo Kaap, a traditionally Muslim Coloured enclave in Cape Town, is facing severe pressure from gentrification.

The South Chima Morning Post notes the fact of the emergence of a thriving Chinatown in the Tokyo suburb of Kawaguchi, and the controversy that this new neighbourhood has created.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes a new image showing the sheer density of events in the core of our galaxy.

Centauri Dreams notes the discovery of 2MASS 0249 c, a planet-like object that distantly orbits a pair of low-mass brown dwarfs.

D-Brief notes the discovery of many new moons of Jupiter, bringing the total up to 79.

Far Outliers looks at the appeasement practiced by the Times of London in the 1930s.

The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas contrasts roots with anchors.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the controversy surrounding surviving honours paid to Franco in Spain.

The LRB Blog looks at how the question of Macedonia continues to be a threatening issue in the politics of Greece.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer suggests the new Mexican president is trying to create a new political machine, one that can only echo the more far-reaching and unrestrained one of PRI.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at the shifting alliances of different Asian countries with China and the United States.

Window on Eurasia reports on the Russian reactions to a recent Politico Europe report describing Estonia's strategies for resisting a Russian invasion in depth.

blogTO reports on the desire of the TTC to take over transit issues generally in the City of Toronto, down to the level of Toronto Islands ferries.

The apology from Bombardier's president for the streetcar faults is, to my mind, not nearly enough. What will come of the TTC? What will come of Bombardier, too? The Toronto Star reports.

If the TTC finally gets the Lightspell public art installation going at the Pioneer Village station, I will be pleased. blogTO reports.

Richard Longley at NOW Toronto reports on the world war memorials at Harbord Collegiate Institute, speaking of alumni lost in these two conflicts.

Jamie Bradburn wrote about the Water Nymphs Club, a swim team sponsored by the Toronto Evening Telegram back in the 1920s.

In response to a desire to remove an almost bizarre controversial statue of a cow from its location in a neighbourhood in Markham, the owner has sued the city for $C 4 million. The Toronto Star reports.

The mayor of Hamilton, Ontario, would like housing incorporated into shopping malls, to deal with issues of housing and retail in one go. Global News reports.

Brexit threatens to decidedly destabilize the picture for the Dutch port city of Rotterdam. The Independent reports.

Bloomberg notes that the controversial Chinese-owned port of Hambantota, in Sri Lanka, is doing terrible business.

Newly-discovered documents provide confirmation of the belief that the Nazis planned to utterly destroy Warsaw. The National Post reports.

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Entries tagged with second world war

[URBAN NOTE] Ten JSTOR Daily links (@jstor_daily)

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[AH] Five alternate history maps from r/imaginarymaps (#alternatehistory)

[MUSIC] Five music links: Nick Cave on AI, Lisbon, Yiddish, Cranberries, psychology

[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: US Buddhism, Samuel Beckett, Brexit, seals, letters

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Cleveland, Osaka and San Francisco, Port City, Sihanoukville

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, London, Moscow, Cape Town, Tokyo and Kawaguchi

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC, Bombardier, Lightspell, Harbord war memorials, Water Nymphs

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Markham, Hamilton, Rotterdam, Hambantota, Warsaw

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