Jan 22, 2014 12:58
- Anders Sandberg, as a good scientist, takes a look at the evidence same-sex marriage could be associated with floods (as a Briton claimed) by looking at his native Sweden.
- Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling thinks that a Facebook executive's prediction of the death of E-mail is substantially a Facebook power grab.
- BlogTO chronicles the history of the Spadina Hotel, an edifice whose history as a hotel may have come to an end with the closure of the hostel that took its place.
- Discover's Collideascape notes that the parable of Easter Island as a metaphor for global environmental collapse is no longer supported by the data.
- Far Outliers takes note of the Arab awakening in the Ottoman Middle East circa 1915.
- The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer thinks that the Syrian civil war hasn't become a conventional conflict and isn't close to ending.
- Gideon Rachman takes a look at the plight of maids, specifically Indonesian ones, in Hong Kong.
- Savage Minds revisits Franz Boas' classic essay The Methods of Ethnology.
- Supernova Condensate rightly takes issue with a Nature blogger, Henry Gee, who has taken to outing anonymous bloggers.
- Towleroad notes the Japanese government's defense of the barbarous Taiji dolphin hunt.
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