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[LINK] Some Friday links
Sep. 25th, 2009 09:25 am- Broadsides' Antonia Zerbisias makes the point that by the time women present themselves for an abortion, they've already made their minds up and aren't going to be dissuaded.
- James Bow suggests that a full bus in a transit system, far from primarily representing said system's popularity, actually represents the sort of inefficiency that leads to the bunching up of buses. Better to increase funding.
- Centauri Dreams considers the effect of general relativity on hypothetical solar sail crafts which would dip very close to the sun in order to get a maximum acceleration.
- Charlie Stross points out that if the Viking 2's lander had dug just a little bit deeper back in 1976, it would have found the global superabundance of ice that we're now discovering. This would have had major knock-on consequences for space exploration, needless to say.
- Far Outliers reports on the failed Hawaiian colony in early 19th century Vanuatu.
- Gideon Rachman talks about the way in which Qadaffi's recent speech before the UN actually made some sense.
- Intuitionistically Uncertain's Michel blogs about a recent Senate vote that would strip Amtrak of funding if it didn't let travelers take firearms in their checked luggage.
- Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns, and Money reports that, in the early 1980s, Castro apparently wanted to launch a nuclear first strike against the US.
- Marginal Revolution considers the question of why Coca Cola is more expensive in Europe.
- The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer examines Brazil's leading position in the ongoing Honduras crisis.
- Slap Upside the Head reports that people have come up with a Facebook app that determines if someone's gay or not. Apparently it works.
- The Vanity Press reports that the Harper government is starting to manifest a scorn for know-it-all experts. Oh dear.
- Finally, Window on Eurasia reports that many prominent Ukrainians are looking for security guarantees against Russia.
