[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

Mar 23, 2016 15:21

  • D-Brief reports on Ceres' bright spots.
  • Dangerous Minds celebrates the video game arcades of the 1980s.
  • The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper speculating that tightly-packed globular clusters might be good cradles for life.
  • The Dragon's Tales examines the processes by which gravel is formed on Mars and Titan.
  • The Everyday Sociology Blog wonders about the extent to which college alienates low-income students.
  • Lawyers, Guns and Money is critical of Hillary Clinton's speech at AIPAC.
  • The LRB Blog features an essay by an American expatriate in Belgium on the occasion of the Brussels attacks.
  • Steve Munro analyses the quality of service on the 6 Bay bus.
  • The NYRB Daily reflects on the films of a Syrian film collective.
  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer points out that the rate of terrorism in Europe now is substantially lower than in the 1970s and 1980s.
  • Savage Minds considers secrecy as it applies to the anthropological writer.
  • Strange Maps reflects on the BBC's Shipping Forecast weather service.
  • Whatever's John Scalzi reflects on the prospects of human survival into the future.
  • Window on Eurasia suggests that Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are on the verge of fighting a border war.

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