Nov 10, 2014 15:32
- blogTO suggests five things the world can learn about Toronto.
- The Dragon's Tales notes that the moa of New Zealand became extinct when the country was home to only a couple thousand people.
- A Fistful of Euros links to satirist musician Wolf Biermann's performance in the Bundestag.
- Geocurrents maps oddly-shaped American electoral regions.
- Language Hat notes the long history of a Chinese-influenced literary language in Korea.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that North Korea is exporting labourers to Qatar to work on World Cup facilities there.
- Marginal Revolution suggests that the Russian invasion of Ukraine might be explained by fear of political contagion.
- The Planetary Society Blog looks at the search for binary asteroids.
- Understanding Society considers the complicated relationship between modern sociologists and the great luminary pioneers of the field.
- Window on Eurasia suggests that Kazakhstan is not ready for the eastern Ukrainian scenario.
- The Financial Times' World blog notes pseudohistory regarding ancient achievements of Hindus.
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