Jan 09, 2017 17:16
- Bad Astronomy shares a photo of the Earth and Moon taken by a Mars probe.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money responds to a baffling claim by a New York City policeman that stranger rape is more of a concern than acquaintance rape.
- Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw, returned from Denmark, wonders
about the extent to which social happiness is maximized by stability and security. - Progressive Download's John Farrell argues that scientists should approach the theory of evolution in a less mechanistic light.
- Window on Eurasia reports on the transformation of United Russia into a parallel structure of government akin to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and engages with the possibility of a pro-Russian Ukrainian government-in-exile.
- Alex Harrowell of Yorkshire Ranter looks at the problems of an independent central bank, finding that failings attributed to these are actually faults of government.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at the highly evolved fashion sense of faggots, in the context of Italy's divides and celebrities.
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