• 'Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith describes his writing projects for this year.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining exomoon formation.
• The LRB Blog worries about Trump's hold on the button.
• The NYRB Daily looks at Rex Tillerson, an oil company diplomat to autocrats.
• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw shares the rediscovered mid-19th century painting ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes the closure of Poland's frontier with Kaliningrad, looks at how Google is beating out Facebook in helping India get connected to the Internet, notes British arms makers' efforts to diversify beyond Europe and examines the United Kingdom's difficult negotiations to get out of the European Union, looks at the problems of investing in ( Read more... )

• The Atlantic notes how some Americans are dealing with an invasive species, the lionfish: by hunting and eating them.
• Bloomberg notes that the Ukrainian prime minister resigned as a result of the Panama Papers.
• Bloomberg View notes the creation, in Russia, of a military force directly under the president.
• CBC notes the report of an Uber driver in ( Read more... )

In his post "That time I was nearly burned alive by a machine-learning model and didn’t even notice for 33 years", Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell writes about how subtle issue with Soviet computer models of Western behaviour nearly started a nuclear war in the early 1980s. Starting principles, it seems, must be carefully examined.

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Far Outliers' Joel shares a passage from the book Tennozan: The Battle of Okinawa and the Atomic Bomb describing the devastation visited on Okinawa. This, he suggests, explains why the bomb was used.

The battle was the turning point in modern history. That first operation on Japanese soil-Okinawa was politically part of Japan to which it reverted ( Read more... )

Bloomberg's Sam Kim reports on South Korean survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and their issues.

The nuclear bomb detonated as a 16-year-old girl sat in a shanty town cradling her baby, waiting for her mother to return from selling candy ( Read more... )

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• blogTO notes that some Toronto-area Starbucks will now feature wine and beer options.
• Gerry Canavan has his own massive post of links.
  
• Centauri Dreams looks at the promise of a NASA mission to Europa.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that compact exoplanetary systems are common around red dwarf stars.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on an ( Read more... )

• blogTO shares ten interesting facts about Scarborough.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at orbits where two or more objects can share a path.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on Lockheed's allegedly promising plan for near-term fusion reactors.
• Eastern Approaches notes concerns about media bias in Slovakian print media.
• Geocurrents notes how recent events show that ( Read more... )