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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.

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.

This r/imaginarymaps map imagines the creation, via migration in the 13th century, of a Turkic Christian minority akin to the Gagauz concentrated in northwestern Germany. Nice map, if questionable borders.

What would have happened if, as nearly occurred in 1762, Prussia was crushed by its neighbours and divided? r/imaginarymaps shows the outcome.

Could there ever have emerged, after the partitions of Poland, a dual-nation kingdom of Prussia-Poland? r/imaginarymaps shows this country.

This r/imaginarymaps map imagines a southern Germany unified under Austria, separate from the sphere of Prussia in the north.

Could a union of Bavaria with the German-speaking lands of Austria after 1919 have worked? r/imaginarymaps shows it.

Bad Astronomy notes a new detailed study suggesting that asteroid Hygeia is round. Does this mean it is a dwarf planet?

The Buzz notes that the Toronto Public Library has a free booklet on the birds of Toronto available at its branches.

Crooked Timber looks forward to a future, thanks to Trump, without the World Trade Organization.

D-Brief notes how the kelp forests off California were hurt by unseasonal heat and disease.

Bruce Dorminey notes an impending collision of supergalactic clusters.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how judgement can complicate collective action.

Language Hat looks at the different definitions of the word "mobile".

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Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how, if anything, climate scientists make conservative claims about their predictions.

Marginal Revolution wonders if planned power outages are a good way to deal with the threat of wildfires in California.

The NYR Daily looks at the ethnic cleansing being enabled by Turkey in Kurdish Syria.

Corey S. Powell at Out There interviews archeologist Arthur Lin about his use of space-based technologies to discovery traces of the past.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the staggering inequality in Chile, driver of the recent protests.

At Roads and Kingdoms, Anthony Elghossain reports from the scene of the mass protests in Lebanon.

Drew Rowsome tells how his balcony garden fared this year.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at stellar generations in the universe. (Our sun is a third-generation star.)

Strange Company looks at the murder of a girl five years old in Indiana in 1898. Was the neighbor boy twelve years old accused of the crime the culprit?

Denis Colombi at Une heure de peine takes a look at social mobility in France.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little considers economic historians and their study of capitalism.

Window on Eurasia looks at the pro-Russian policies of the Moldova enclave of Gagauzia, and draws recommendations for Ukraine re: the Donbas.

Why not build a public beach in the Montréal neighbourhood of Lachine? Global News considers.

The Vietnamese cuisine of New Orleans does look good. VICE reports.

CityLab describes an effort to build a smart city in Berlin, in Siemensstadt. I wish Berliners better outcomes than what Toronto seems to be getting in the Port Lands.

Guardian Cities reports on what seems to me to be a terrible plan to flood the ancient settlement of Hasankeyf in Turkey for dams.

Saša Petricic at CBC looks at how the political consensus in Hong Kong has broken down, perhaps irretrievably.

The BBC takes a look at Pontic Greek, a Greek dialect that survives precariously in exile from its homeland in Anatolia.

Klaus Meyer writes at The Conversation about how Hitler, in his rise to power, became a German citizen.

Low-income families in the Toronto area face serious challenges in getting affordable Internet access. CBC reports.

Jeremy Keefe at Global News takes a look at Steve Skafte, an explorer of abandoned roads in Nova Scotia.

In some communities in British Columbia, middle-class people have joined criminal gangs for social reasons. CBC reports.

Centauri Dreams considers the recent study of near-Earth asteroid 1999 KW4, looking at it from the perspective of defending the Earth and building a civilization in space.

Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber continues a debate on universal basic income.

The Dragon's Tales considers if India does need its own military space force.

JSTOR Daily looks at how foster care in the United States (Canada, too, I'd add) was also synonymous with sending children off as unpaid farm labourers.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a proposal, linking immigration to high-income countries to the idea of immigration as reparation for colonialism.

The LRB Blog considers the ever-growing presence of the dead on networks like Facebook.

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad at the NYR Daily looks at how Bellingcat and other online agencies have transformed investigative journalism.

The Russian Demographics Blog shares a speech by the head of the Bank of Japan talking about the interactions of demographic change and economic growth.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the mystery behind the great mass of early black hole J1342+0928.

Strange Company looks at the unsolved Christmas 1928 disappearance of young Melvin Horst from Orrville, Ohio. What happened?

Window on Eurasia notes that Uzbekistan is moving the Latin script for Uzbek into closer conformity with its Turkish model.

Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber takes us from her son's accidental cut to the electronic music of Røbic.

D-Brief explains what the exceptional unexpected brightness of the first galaxies reveals about the universe.

Far Outliers looks at how President Grant tried to deal with the Ku Klux Klan.

JSTOR Daily looks at the surprising influence of the Turkish harem on the fashion, at least, of Western women.

This Kotaku essay arguing that no one should be sitting on the Iron Throne makes even better sense to me now.

Language Hat looks at the particular forms of French spoken by the famously Francophile Russian elites of the 19th century.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how teaching people to code did not save the residents of an Appalachia community.

Marginal Revolution notes how, in the early 19th century, the young United States trading extensively with the Caribbean, even with independent Haiti.

At the NYR Daily, Colm Tóibín looks at the paintings of Pat Steir.

Peter Rukavina writes about how he has been inspired by the deaths of the Underhays to become more active in local politics.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society shares his research goals from 1976.

Window on Eurasia notes the conflicts between the Russian Orthodox Church and some Russian nationalists over the latter's praise of Stalin.

Arnold Zwicky looks at dragons in history, queer and otherwise.

La Presse notes how Montréal is placing limits on new construction, and why.

JSTOR Daily looks at how Basquiat interacted with his surroundings in New York City, using them for art.

CityLab reports on a study of gentrification and displacement in Philadelphia.

Guardian Cities reports on the remarkable speed with which Turkish Airlines shifted to a new airport in Istanbul.

This article in The Conversation is entirely right about the importance of Indigenous urban reserves: Why cannot First Nations be as urbanized as other Canadians?

Chris Fitch writes at CityLab about how, as part of a new policy, Maori placenames are being introduced (or reintroduced) into the New Zealand capital of Wellington.

New York Magazine is quite right to note that a 2020 reelection of Donald Trump would be a catastrophe for, among others, Democrats.

Iran and Turkey are the obvious winners from the disarray in Iraq, among other Middle Eastern countries. Open Democracy reports.

The Spanish situation is deteriorating, between the growth of separatism in Catalonia and far-right populism elsewhere. Open Democracy reports.

Is Latin America a region adrift in the world? Open Democracy reports.

Ozy notes the rapid growth of the influence of Turkey, culturally and politically, in Latin America.

A statue of Queen Victoria has been vandalized in Montréal, the act claimed by an anti-colonialist coalition. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities profiled an Instagram account, thedoorsofnyc, concentrating on the unique doors of New York City.

Billionaire urbanism is identified by this article at The Stranger as the downfall of the waterfront of Seattle.

CityLab notes that the government of Amsterdam is now requiring owners of new homes to live in their property, limiting the ability to rent them out.

The Atlantic notes the criticisms of many urbanists in Istanbul that restorations of the city's ancient heritage are actually destroying them, at least as survivals from the past.

D-Brief notes a theory that human brains grew so large fueled by a diet of bone marrow.

Alligators provide scientists with invaluable models of how dinosaurs heard sound. D-Brief reports.

D-Brief examines pulsar PSR J0002+6216, a body ejected from its prior orbit so violently by its formative supernova that it is now escaping the Milky Way Galaxy.

D-Brief notes the remarkable glow emanating from the quasar in the Teacup Galaxy 1.1 billion light-years away.

D-Brief notes genetic evidence suggesting that Anatolian hunter-gatherers, far from being replaced by migrants, adopted agriculture on their own.

The Guardian reports on how selfie dysmorphia is prompting some people to seek plastic surgery.

The Island Review shares D Niko Holmes' beautiful photos of Brtish Columbia's Salt Spring Island.

The Island Review notes the volcanic photography of Joseph Wright on Lanzarote.

Wired shares the work of photographer Ioana Cîrlig in the factory towns of Romania.

The NYR Daily looks at the work of pioneering Turkish photographer Yıldız Moran.

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.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the newly-named Neptune moon of Hippocamp, and how it came about as product of a massive collision with the larger moon of Proteus.

Centauri Dreams also reports on the discovery of the Neptune moon of Hippocamp.

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes how the attempt to revoke the citizenship of Shamima Begum sets a terribly dangerous precedent for the United Kingdom.

D-Brief notes new evidence suggesting the role of the Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions in triggering the Cretaceous extinction event, alongside the Chixculub asteroid impact.

Far Outliers notes the problems of Lawrence of Arabia with Indian soldiers and with Turks.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing takes issue with the state of philosophical contemplation about technology, at least in part a structural consequence of society.

Hornet Stories shares this feature examining the future of gay porn, in an environment where amateur porn undermines the existing studios.

JSTOR Daily considers the spotty history of casting African-American dancers in ballet.

Language Hat suggests that the Académie française will soon accept for French feminized nouns of nouns links to professionals ("écrivaine" for a female writer, for instance).

The LRB Blog considers the implications of the stripping of citizenship from Shamima Begum. Who is next? How badly is citizenship weakened in the United Kingdom?

Marginal Revolution notes the upset of Haiti over its banning by Expedia.

The NYR Daily notes the tension in Turkey between the country's liberal laws on divorce and marriage and rising Islamization.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the moment, in the history of the universe, when dark energy became the dominant factors in the universe's evolution.

Towleroad remembers Roy Cohn, the lawyer who was the collaborator of Trump up to the moment of Cohn's death from AIDS.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little takes a look at Marx's theories of how governments worked.

Window on Eurasia looks at the existential pressures facing many minority languages in Russia.

Centauri Dreams extends further consideration the roles that artificial intelligences might play in interstellar exploration.

D-Brief notes that the genes associated with being a night owl also seem to be associated with poor mental health outcomes.

Far Outliers looks at the lifeboat system created on the upper Yangtze in the late 19th century.

Kashmir Hill, writing at Gizmodo, notes how blocking Google from her phone left her online experience crippled.

Imageo notes that, even if halted, global warming still means that many glaciers well melt as they respond to temperature changes.

JSTOR Daily looks at the racism that permeated ads in 19th century North America.

Language Hat looks at how some Turkish-speaking Christians transcribed the Turkish language in the Greek alphabet.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how utterly ineffective the Trump Administration's new refugee waiver system actually is.

The LRB Blog looks at the film and theatre career of Lorenza Mazetti.

Marginal Revolution notes, in passing, the import of being a YouTube celebrity.

Molly Crabapple at the NYR Daily writes about the work of the New Sanctuary coalition, which among other things waits with refugees in court as they face their hearings.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle looks for traces of the elusive muskrat.

Towleroad shares footage of New Order performing the early song "Ceremony" in 1981.

Transit Toronto notes that Metrolinx now has an app for Presto up!

At Vintage Space, Amy Shira Teitel looks at the Soviet Moon exploration program in 1969.

Window on Eurasia notes the new pressures being placed by rising Islamism and instability in Afghanistan upon Turkmenistan.

Arnold Zwicky considers, briefly, the little is known about the lives of 1980s gay porn stars Greg Patton and Bobby Pyron. How did they lead their lives?

Curbed takes a look at the innovative ways in which the city government of Hamilton has helped boost the city's strengths.

Commonwealth Magazine shares a revived plan from the 1980s to protect Boston from sea level rise by building a great crescent-shaped dike in Boston Harbor.

CityLab takes a look at New York City's seemingly-inexplicable decision to back down on a years-long closure of the L Train subway line for repair work.

Guardian Cities notes the controversy in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, about the construction of a Turkish-funded mosque there. Is this but an element of a new Turkish sphere of influence in the western Balkans?

This fascinating CNN report takes a look at the sheer scale of Chinese influence in Addis Ababa, the booming capital of Ethiopia, on its own terms and as an example of Chinese influence in Africa at large. (The locals, incidentally, find its models quite relevant and wanted.)

Transitions Online reports on how Syrian refugees are increasingly finding new homes in Turkey.

Iranian families divided by the Trump visa ban now meet in a library on the Québec-Vermont border. Reuters reports.

Poland, this Le Devoir report observes, now attracts more immigrants in absolute numbers--many more in relative terms--than Germany.

What, this Open Democracy essay asks, will the Honduran refugees in Tijuana do next?

This Reihan Salam suggestion at The Atlantic that Mexico should start to encourage American retirees to settle, with the hope of diminishing the political weight of Latin American migration to the United States, actually makes a lot of sense.

Centauri Dreams notes new findings suggesting that low metallicity in stars is linked to the formation of multi-planet systems, including systems with multiple small planets perhaps not unlike Earth.

D-Brief notes that the potentially detectable S1 dark matter stream is heading past the Earth.

Far Outliers reports on a visit of samurai to San Francisco in 1860.

JSTOR Daily notes the wollemi pine of Australia, an ancient tree around in the era of the (non-avian) dinosaurs.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes yet another instance of the decidedly unimpressive leadership of Donald Trump in office.

Lingua Franca looks at the emergence of an interesting linguistic tic in English, "regular" as in "like a regular William Safire".

Marginal Revolution looks at how government propaganda in Rwanda aimed to minimize ethnic tensions and the salience of ethnic identity seems to have actually worked.

The NYR Daily looks how at the English nationalism that has inspired Brexit is indifferent to the loss of Northern Ireland.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shows how crop data from the United States and Europe can be transformed into abstract art.

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia is responding to the Ecumenical Patriarchate's recognition of a Ukrainian church by trying to organize a Russian church in its territory of Turkey.

Arnold Zwicky explores the word "teknonymy", "the practice of referring to parents by the names of their children".

Architectuul talks about the remarkable and distinctive housing estates of south London, like Alexandra Road, currently under pressure from developers and unsympathetic governments.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at Bennu, set to be visited by the OSIRIS-REx probe.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about meeting people you've met online via social networks, making friends even. Myself, I've done this all the time: Why not use these networks to their fullest in a fragmented vast world?

Centauri Dreams celebrates the now-completed mission of the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope.

D-Brief looks at the distinctive seasons of Triton, and the still-open questions surrounding Neptune's largest moon.

At JSTOR Daily, Nancy Bilyeau writes about the import of the famous Gunpowder Plot of 1605, something often underplayed despite its potential for huge change and its connection to wider conflicts.

Language Hat notes the name of God in the Hebrew tradition, Yahweh. Where did it come from?

Language Log shares an interesting idea for helping to preserve marginalized languages: Why not throw a language party celebrating the language?

Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the question of what historical general or military leader would do best leading the armies of the living dead.

The NYR Daily looks at the problems with Erdogan's big investments in public infrastructure in Turkey, starting with the new Istanbul airport.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the possibility of life in the very early universe. Earth-like life could have started within a billion years of the Big Bang; Earth life might even have begun earlier, for that matter.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shows a map of Europe identifying which countries are the more chauvinistic in the continent.

Window on Eurasia notes the strength of the relatively recent division between Tatars and Bashkirs, two closely related people with separate identities grown strong in the Soviet era.

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Entries tagged with turkey

[BLOG] Five JSTOR Daily links (@jstor_daily)

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[AH] Five r/imaginarymaps #alternatehistory maps: Turks, Prussia, Prussia-Poland, Austria, Bavaria

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, New Orleans, Berlin, Hasankeyf, Hong Kong

[NEWS] Five cultural links: Hitler, Internet, Nova Scotia roads, BC gangs, Pontic Greek

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[URBAN NOTE] Six city links: Montréal, New York City, Philadelphia, Istanbul, reserves, Wellington

[NEWS] Five links on politics: 2020 US, Middle East, Spain, Turkey, Latin America

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, New York City, Seattle, Amsterdam, Istanbul

[NEWS] Five D-Brief links: brains and marrow, dinosaurs, PSR J0002+6216, Teacup Galaxy, Anatolia

[PHOTO] Five photo links: dysmorphia, D Niko Holmes, Joseph Wright, Ioana Cîrlig, Yıldız Moran

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five cities links: Hamilton, Boston, New York City, Pristina, Addis Ababa

[NEWS] Five migration notes: Syrians, Iranians, Ukrainians, Central Americans, Americans

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