Nov 26, 2016 11:55
- blogTO shares photos of Toronto streets in the 1960s, cluttered by signage.
- Crooked Timber and the LRB Blog respond to the death of Fidel Castro.
- Far Outliers looks at the exploitative but functional British treatment of servants.
- Language Hat notes the insensitivity of machine translation and examines the evolution of the Spanish language.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money advocates for an energized public response to racist displays in Trump's America.
- The Map Room Blog looks at a controversial Brexit art exhibition.
- Marginal Revolution notes a pay by the minute coffee shop in Brooklyn.
- The NYRB Daily shares images of Hokusai.
- The Planetary Society Blog shares beautiful space photos.
- Window on Eurasia notes how terror famines were used to russify peripheral areas of the Soviet Union, reports on strengthening religion among younger Daghestanis, and suggests there will be larger Russian deployments in Belarus.
new york city,
belarus,
united states,
kazakhstan,
united kingdom,
popular culture,
ukraine,
toronto,
links,
public art,
spanish language,
astronomy,
caucasus,
military,
former soviet union,
genocide,
coffee,
politics,
history,
cuba,
imperialism,
blogs,
racism,
photos,
japan