• D-Brief shares rare video of beaked whales on the move.
• Dangerous Minds notes that someone has actually begun selling unauthorized action figures of Trump Administration figures like Bannon and Spencer.
• Language Log looks at a linguistic feature of Emma Watson's quote, her ending it with a preposition.
• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen considers, ( Read more... )

CBC News reports on changing mammal populations in Hudson's Bay, with killer whales potentially displacing not just polar bears but belugas, too. (I really like belugas.)

The food chain in Hudson Bay is drastically changing as killer whales take advantage of less sea ice and eat their way into Manitoba, a researcher in Arctic mammal populations ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes Niagara Falls' new light show.
• Body Horrors reports on a 1980 epidemic of MRSA among Detroit drug users.
• Centauri Dreams describes the final orbits of Cassini around Saturn.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting Tabby's Star is being star-mined.
• Language Log looks at an element of Chinese slang regarding telecommunications.

National Geographic's Ed Yong reports on some amazing research findings from the Galapagos, examining the culture of the sperm whales of the area. This knowledge carries with it some notable implications: Is what happened to the Galapagos' prior population of sperm whales a form of genocide?

Since 1985, Hal Whitehead had been leading a team to the ( Read more... )

The Globe and Mail carried this intriguing Canadian Press article.

A whale watching association says a battle between some of the largest creatures in the seas off the coast of British Columbia appeared to end with the human equivalent of fist waving and name-calling, although they can’t be sure of the outcome ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes Venezuela's hopes for an oil price at $US 50, looks at Labour keeping the current London mayor's seat, observes the vulnerability of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, and warns of a possible drought in the US Corn Belt.
• Bloomberg View notes the continuing fragmentation of the Orthodox Church, and suggests Putin might accept a partial ban ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg reports on Dutch losses from Brexit, looks at the scene in Fallujah, observes the fragmentation of Venezuela's opposition, and notes the positive impact of a solar energy boom on Japan's fuel consumption.
• Bloomberg View notes the lack of regional pressure on Venezuela, reports that Brexit would hit Britain's poor and British-based banks ( Read more... )

• The BBC notes a study suggesting that the bombardment of the early Moon by comets gave it water.
• Bloomberg View criticizes red tape in Greece, and notes that the salts of Australia will be drawing solar cell manufacturers to that country.
• The Guardian notes Jeremy Corbyn's claims of BBC bias against him.
• The Inter Press Service examines the ( Read more... )

Barbara King's NPR commentary is unsettling, mainly for its implications about humans. Are we really actually fully conscious?

In her January Scientific American piece titled "What Animals Know about Where Babies Come From," anthropologist Holly Dunsworth makes a convincing case that despite popular assumptions to the contrary, animals generally ( Read more... )

The Dragon's Tales linked to an article in the Economist, "Fin-tech", suggesting that the structure of whaling companies was uniquely influential.

Most historians trace the origins of the modern company back to outfits like the Dutch East India Company and its British equivalent. These were given national monopolies on trade in certain goods or ( Read more... )