• Anthropology.net looks at the genetics of how the Inuit have adapted to cold weather.
• 'Nathan Smith's Apostrophen shares the author's plans for the coming year.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling shares Margaret Atwood's commitment to fighting for freedom of expression.
• Crooked Timber asks its readers for recommendations in Anglophone science fiction.
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• Centauri Dreams looks at signs of advanced technologies detectable by SETI searches.
• D-Brief notes evidence of the domestication of turkeys in eth and 5th century Mexico.
• Dangerous Minds discusses a legendary 1985 concert by Einstürzende Neubauten.
• Joe. My. God. notes the banning of Tila Tequila from Twitter.
• Language Log looks about a Hebrew ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes how an economic boom will let Sweden postpone hard decisions, looks at the popularity of the Korean Wave in China, suggests that subsidies are going to be a big issue for cash-short Arab governments, looks at the investigation in Bulgaria of groups which arrest refugees, and looks at the long-term problems of the Russian economy.
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• blogTO shares photos of Yonge and Dundas in the grimy 1970s.
• The Big Picture shares photos from a Tibetan Buddhist assembly.
• Crooked Timber shares a photo of Bristol's floating bridge.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on an estimate of the number of extraterrestrial technological civilizations.
• The Dragon's Tales notes an atlas of drought in Europe.

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly asks readers how they define their community.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the Rosetta probe's unusual comet.
• Crooked Timber notes the death of Brian Friel.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports that hot Jupiter 51 Pegasi b apparently does not have rings.
• The Dragon's Tales suggests the bright spots on Ceres are salt deposits.

• blogTO notes that John Tory wants private industry to fund a Toronto bid for the Olympics.
• Centauri Dreams notes a paper suggesting that the effects of panspermia might be detectable, via the worlds seeded with life.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that the Earth's geological composition is likely to be unique.
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• Centauri Dreams anticipates Ceres.
• Crooked Timber notes Big Oil is turning against Big Coal.
• Geocurrents shares Martin Lewis' slides on Nigeria.
• Language Hat, reflecting on Irish and Hebrew, considers language change and shift.
• Language Log examines the historical American broadcast r-less accent.

• Centauri Dreams looks at the exocomets of Beta Pictoris.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper on the luminosity of cold brown dwarfs.
• The Dragon's Tales links to one paper suggesting that Polynesian migration up to the 14th century depended on a pleasant global climate and links to another describing the discovery of a Polynesian canoe from 1400 CE in ( Read more... )

Oakland Ross' article in yesterday's Sunday Star, "How Hebrew rose from the dead", is an interesting overview of the history behind Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's kickstarting the late 19th century revival of the Hebrew language as an everyday vernacular after nearly two thousand years.

Little more than 100 years have passed since Hebrew first began to ( Read more... )