Jan 13, 2016 19:12
- blogTO identify five neighbourhoods in downtownish Toronto with cheap rent.
- The Dragon's Gaze notes one paper suggesting Earth-like worlds may need both ocean and rocky surfaces to be habitable.
- The Dragon's Tales reports that Pluto's Sputnik Planum is apparently less than ten million years old.
- Geocurrents begins an interesting regional schema of California.
- Language Log notes a Hong Kong ad that blends Chinese and Japanese remarkably.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that societies with low inequality report higher levels of happiness than others.
- The Map Room points to the lovely Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands.
- Marginal Revolution wonders why Amazon book reviews are so dominated by American reviewers.
- Savage Minds considers, after Björk, the ecopoetics of physical geology data.
- Window on Eurasia commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Vilnius massacre.
- The Financial Times' The World blog looks at Leo, the dog of the Cypriot president.
maps,
sociology,
china,
anthropology,
california,
urban note,
globalization,
space science,
neighbourhoods,
united states,
toronto,
extraterrestrial life,
links,
cyprus,
economics,
hong kong,
astronomy,
bjork,
social sciences,
japanese language,
communism,
former soviet union,
popular music,
chinese language,
pluto,
book reviews,
baltic states,
blogs,
regionalism,
lithuania,
japan