May 21, 2013 12:02
- Bag News Notes isn't impressed by the scandal aroused by Arne Svenson's photos of New York City condo dwellers taken through their windows--they are open, aren't they?
- Beyond the Beyond links to an interview with Chinese science fiction writer Fei Dao about that genre in China.
- Burgh Diaspora's Jim Russell writes about the problems of rural America in keeping talent.
- The Dragon's Tales and Jonathan Crowe both link to the new cartographic map of Saturn's moon Titan.
- Far Outliers' quotes from Chinua Achebe's latest book, this quote a recounting of the geographic and social origins of nationalism in Nigeria.
- Geocurrents notes the patterns and causes of Stalin's deportation of ethnic minorities from frontier zones, from Finland through to Siberia.
- Terrible news from Normblog's Norman Geras, who is currently being hospitalized for prostate cancer.
- Torontoist reports on the multimedia efforts of a Torontonian looking for a cat lost at College and Dovercourt.
- The Way the Future Blogs' Frederik Pohl writes about Brooklyn's joys.
- Window on Eurasia notes that Kyrgyzstan is the latest former Soviet state to downgrade the status of the Russian language.
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