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[BLOG] Some Friday links
- 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... )
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Centauri Dreams reports on asteroid P/2016 G1, a world that, after splitting, is now showing signs of a cometary tail.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog considers outrage as a sociological phenomenon. What, exactly, does it do? What does it change?
- Joe. My. God. reports on a new push for same-sex marriage in Germany, coming from the SPD.
- Lawyers, Guns and ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- Anthropology.net reports on the recent discovery in China of two skulls a hundred thousand years old, possible remnants of a hitherto-unknown hominid species.
- blogTO reports on the boom in the Toronto tech community.
- Language Log breaks down the linguistics, specifically word lengths, of audiobooks.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the difficult ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Antipope's Charlie Stross wonders if the politics of Trump might mean an end to the British nuclear deterrent.
- Centauri Dreams shares Andrew LePage's evaluation of the TRAPPIST-1 system, where he concludes that there are in fact three plausible candidates for habitable status there.
- Dangerous Minds shares the gender-bending photographs of Norwegian ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- blogTO shares media exploring how Toronto was marketed internationally in the 1980s. This decade apparently saw less concentration on landmarks and more on cultural activities.
- The Map Room Blog links to a National Geographic collection of the childhood maps of cartographers.
- Marginal Revolution notes that the loosening of China's one-child policy ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- Language Hat reports on the Wenzhounese of Italy.
- Language Log writes about the tones of Cantonese.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money writes about the costs of law school. (They are significant, and escalating hugely.)
- Marginal Revolution reports on the problems facing the Brazilian pension system, perhaps overgenerous for a relatively poor country facing rapid ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- blogTO notes that yesterday was a temperature record here in Toronto, reaching 12 degrees Celsius in the middle of February.
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the pleasure of using old things.
- Joe. My. God. notes the death of Roe v Wade plaintiff Norma McCorvey.
- Language Hat notes that, apparently, dictionaries are hot again because ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Friday links
- blogTO looks at deserted Mirvish Village.
- Crooked Timber reenages with the Rachel Carson and DDT myth.
- The Crux looks at the Mandela Effect, exploring false memories.
- Dangerous Minds makes the case for the musical genius of Bobbie Gentry.
- From the Heart of Europe's Nicholas Whyte recounts his visit to Albania's bunker museum.
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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- blogTO reports on the history of Toronto's Wellington Street.
- Dangerous Minds introduces me to the grim American gothic that is Wisconsin Death Trip. What happened to Black River Falls in the 1890s?
- The Dragon's Gaze links to hypotheses about KIC 8462852, one suggesting KIC 8462852 has four exoplanets, another talking about a planet's disintegration.
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- blogTO notes an Instagram user from Toronto, @brxson, who takes stunning photos of the city from on high.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the limits of exoplanet J1407b's massive ring system.
- The Dragon's Tales notes evidence that the primordial Martian atmosphere apparently did not have carbon dioxide.
- Imageo notes that the California ( Read more... )