Dec 29, 2016 10:16
- Anthropology.net describes an effort to digitize tapes recording Navajo oral history.
- Centauri Dreams remembers Vera Rubin.
- D-Brief looks
- Dangerous Minds shares a 1984 TV clip featuring George Michael and Morrissey talking about Joy Division.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting a gas giant exoplanet might be indicated by a protoplanetary disk.
- Language Log reports on how Chinese netizens are criticizing pollution through the mockery of official slogans.
- Language Hat looks at the question of how the word "pecan" is pronounced.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money argues political science is not a science at all, like economics.
- The NYRB Daily notes that the shared inability of Trump and Putin to plan things and account for unexpected consequences does not lend itself to optimism.
- Window on Euruasia looks at Tatarstan's issues with regional transfer funding in Russia and shares an apocalyptic account of what will happen to Ukraine in the Russian sphere of influence.
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