Sep 15, 2016 10:04
- blogTO notes how expensive Toronto's rental market is.
- Centauri Dreams looks at the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system.
- Crooked Timber engages with the complexities of racism.
- The Crux shares some oral history about the detection of the first gravitational wave.
- The Dragon's Gaze reports about the difficulties involved with detecting exoplanets around red dwarfs and describes the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting an orange dwarf in the Pleiades.
- Joe. My. God. notes that New York City ended free web browsing at browsing stations because people kept looking up porn.
- Language Log notes that a partially shared script does not make Chinese readable by speakers of Japanese, and vice versa.
- Marginal Revolution cautions against the idea that Brexit is over.
- The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer talks about the usefulness of counterfactuals, especially good counterfactuals.
- Torontoist argues that the TTC needs more cats. Why not?
- The Volokh Conspiracy links to a comparative global study of settlements in occupied territories.
- Window on Eurasia reports that Google has displaced television as a primary source of news for Russians.
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