Jul 04, 2016 13:04
- Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling mourns the death of Alvin Toffler.
- The Big Picture shares images of the Istanbul airport attack.
- blogTO notes Toronto's recent Trans March was the largest in world history.
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly interviews memoirist Plum Johnson.
- Centauri Dreams considers the determination of distances to dim stars and looks at the total energies likely to be used in interstellar travel and interplanetary colonization.
- Crooked Timber notes the ordered recount in Austria's presidential elections and advocates for anti-militarism.
- D-Brief notes the exciting discoveries of Ceres, and observes that ancient tombs may have doubled as astronomical observatories.
- The Dragon's Gaze considers where warm Jupiters form, considers the stability of complex exoplanet systems, and notes a high-precision analysis of solar twin HIP 100963.
- The Dragon's Tales wonders if the shape of Martian sand dunes indicate a denser Martian atmosphere a bit more than four billion years ago.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog considers evictions and poverty in the United States.
- Inkfish notes that different honeybees seem to have different personalities.
- Language Hat notes the import of Maltese in Mediterranean history.
- Language Log talks about Sino-Japanese.
- Lovesick Cyborg shares the doubts of polled Americans with the viability of virtual lovers.
- The LRB Blog shares an article supporting Corbyn.
- The Map Room Blog notes that San Francisco was literally built on buried ships.
- Marginal Revolution notes the collapse of Greek savings and looks at Euroskepticism's history in the United Kingdom.
- Steve Munro updates readers on Union-Pearson Express ridership.
- The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer thinks the Netherlands Antilles offer useful models to the United Kingdom, and is confused by a claim that that bias against Mexican immigrants does not exist when the data seems to suggest it does.
- Torontoist goes into the life of conservative Protestant newspaper publishing Black Jack Robinson.
- Transit Toronto notes that in a decade, GO Trains will connect Hamilton to Niagara Falls.
- The Volokh Conspiracy argues against using the Brexit vote to argue against referenda.
- Window on Eurasia notes the Russian deployment of military forces to the Belarus border, looks at Tatarstan's concern for its autonomy, observes the changing demographics of Ukraine, and notes the Russian debate over what sort of European Union collapse they would like.
- Arnold Zwicky remembers his father through ephemera.
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