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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- The Dragon's Tales links to a private proposal for the ESA to launch
- The Everyday Sociology Blog's Peter Kaufman finds sociology and mindfulness meditation quite compatible.
- Far Outliers takes a look at the instability of the post-Ottoman Arab kingdoms of the Middle East.
- Joe. My. God. notes that AIDS denialists are trying to shut down YouTube ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Friday links
- Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes the discovery that the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy NGC 1365 is rotating at nearly the speed of light. What does it mean?
- BlogTO features vintage photos of Queen Street East.
- Crasstalk's TS posts a followup to the spreading scandals besetting the Canadian Senate. Oh, but for a unicameral federal ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster writes about Titan, first noting an apparent river valley flowing into the north-polar Ligeia Mare, the second reflecting on the possible subsurface oceans of that Saturnian moon.
- At Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell reflects on the ignoble record of the Economist in relation to the Irish potato famine of the 1840s.
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[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- At Acts of Minor Treason, Andrew Barton wonders why fictional names for an independent western Canada are so lame.
- Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait goes over the evidence about the supposed massive distant gas giant Tyche in our system, pointing out that there are suggestive theories but no proofs, and no, this has nothing to do with the Sumerians.
- blogTO ( Read more... )
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[NEWS] Some Tuesday news links
Everyone, welcome [NEWS]! I'll find a suitable icon as quickly as I can.
- The New York Times reports on the growing global demand for the element lithium, so critical in battery manufacture.
- Canada's responding maturely to criticism of the seal hunt, the Times of London reports, by putting seal meat on the menu of the federal parliament's cafeteria.
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[DM] "Why Haitians are not going to go to Senegal"
I've a post up at Demography Matters dealing with the unlikelihood of Senegal's offer to house Haitians actually happening. (No, it won't. Why would it?) -
[BLOG-LIKE POSTING] Oh no, Ghana has oil
The long and hitherto unsuccesful history of oil companies' prospecting for oil and natural gas came to an end earlier this month with the announcement that six hundred thousand million barrels of oil have been found off the Ghanaian coastline. The Ghanaians are worried.
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[LINK] Two African Migration Notes
- The widely distributed article "Africans risk all to breach fortress Europe" examines the phenomenon of West African immigration to western Europe, particularly from Senegal. Senegal's interior minister recently estimated that two or three million Senegalese live outside their country, itself home to ten million people. The funds acquired through ( Read more... )