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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- The Crux makes the case that, for too long, modern homo sapiens have underestimated the genius of the Neanderthals.
- D-Brief looks at the efforts of some scientists to develop brewing standards for the Moon.
- Language Hat examines different languages' writing standards--Turkish, Greek, Armenian--in the late Ottoman Empire.
- Language Log deconstructs ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Sunday links
- Bad Astronomy reports on the astounding scientific illiteracy of Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci.
- blogTO compiles a list of the best tobagganing hills in Toronto.
- Citizen Science Salon looks at what we can do in the redwood forests.
- The Dragon's Gaze notes a gap in the disk of TW Hydrae.
- Imageo notes that 2016 is the warmest year in the records.
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[BLOG] Some Friday links
- The Big Picture shares photos of motorbike racing in South Africa.
- Centauri Dreams considers the stellar weather that planets of red dwarf stars might encounter.
- Dead Things looks at two genetic studies which complicate the narrative of humanity's spread.
- Dangerous Minds shares the infamous anti-disco night of 1979 that spelled the end of the genre in ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- blogTO notes how expensive Toronto's rental market is.
- Centauri Dreams looks at the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system.
- Crooked Timber engages with the complexities of racism.
- The Crux shares some oral history about the detection of the first gravitational wave.
- The Dragon's Gaze reports about the difficulties involved with detecting exoplanets around red ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Beyond the Beyond's notes the imminent end of Moore's law.
- Centauri Dreams imagines what a stellified gas giant might look like.
- D-Brief notes Ceres' lack of large craters and looks at how New Zealand is declaring war on invasive fauna.
- The Dragon's Gaze looks at Venus analog Gliese 832d.
- Joe. My. God. notes intensifying scrutiny of Trump's Russian ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling mourns the death of Alvin Toffler.
- The Big Picture shares images of the Istanbul airport attack.
- blogTO notes Toronto's recent Trans March was the largest in world history.
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly interviews memoirist Plum Johnson.
- Centauri Dreams considers the determination of distances to dim stars and ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Dangerous Minds notes the food songs that gorillas apparently sing to themselves as they eat.
- The Dragon's Gaze reports on the TRAPPIST-1 system, with three Earth-sized terrestrial planets orbiting a very faint star.
- The Dragon's Tales notes a paper examining methane exchange in the Martian near-surface.
- Joe. My. God. reports that Eurovision will be ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith updates readers on his writing projects and points them to anthologies looking for new submissions.
- blogTO talks about the origins of Bay Street.
- Centauri Dreams notes new discoveries about the origins of mysterious "fast radio bursts".
- The Dragon's Tales notes how a genetic study of Panama's population showed the impact of ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- Anthropology notes the latest archeological findings suggesting that Easter Island was not destroyed by war.
- Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling notes that Wired will now no longer be allowing people with ad blockers to access the site.
- The Dragon's Gaze notes the likely existence of a substantial gas giant in the disk of TW Hydrae and describes a ( Read more... )
