Mar 20, 2011 15:19
- At The Dragon's Tales, Will Baird links to analysis of periods in Earth's climate forty million years ago when global temperatures peaked suddenly by up to five degrees, and remained that way for tens of thousands of years.
- Extraordinary Observation's Rob Pitingolo describes how the Ohio city of Youngstown is trying to engage in a planned shrinkage, getting rid of neighbourhoods while trying not to hollow out the city.
- GeoCurrent Events notes the ongoing turmoil in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- Language Log tackles the myth that there is no word for "looting" in Japanese and that therefore the Japanese can't loot because they can't iamgine doing it.
- Laywers, Guns and Money's Dave Noon blogs about the homeopaths offering cures and treatments in the wake of Japan's nuclear emergency. How do you dilute electromagnetic radiation, again?
- At the Map Room Blog, Jonathan Crowe links to a recent map of the United States dividing its counties into twelve categories based on income and other socioeconomic categories.
- Mark Simpson remarks on a comfortably homosocial Guinness beer commercial.
- In the weekly Saturday Historicist feature, Torontoist's Jamie Bradburn describes the uninspiring career of the Conservative Party's erstwhile Toronto press organ, the iEmpire.
- At the Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin wonders whether Julius Caesar's assassins should be praised or condemned. Julius Caesar did do horrible things, but then, they all did.
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