Aug 07, 2015 15:23
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers what it takes to be a credible journalist.
- Centauri Dreams considers the study of planets orbiting brown dwarfs.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper considering if Sedna was captured from another star.
- The Dragon's Tales wonders if orbital probes can detect volcanism on Venus.
- A Fistful of Euros' Alex Harrowell points out that the wealthier Africa becomes the larger a source of migrants it will be.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money uses Magic Mike to study the repression of female desire.
- Marginal Revolution reports a study of Scandinavia.
- pollotenchegg maps economic growth over 2004-2014. The east did worse--the Donbas much worse--than the west.
- Spacing Toronto looks at abandoned rail lines and hidden streets in Toronto.
- Window on Eurasia looks at problems in Dagestan, suggests Russian fondness for Soviet symbols without beign aware of Soviet ideology will be a problem, and suggests that the Krajina will be a model for the Donbas republics.
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space science,
africa,
popular culture,
ukraine,
toronto,
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clash of ideologies,
croatia,
economics,
mass media,
astronomy,
norden,
former yugoslavia,
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gender,
writing,
rail,
venus,
demographics,
history,
scandinavia,
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migration,
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