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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 Tuesday links
- Anthropology.net deals with the use of technology to save endangered languages.
- At the Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly starts off a discussion of high school by starting with The Breakfast Club.
- Dangerous Minds shares video of a very early performance by the Police.
- The Frailest Thing engages with the idea and importance of memory.
- Lawyers, Guns and ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- A BCer in Toronto mourns the declining standards behind the Tim Horton's apple fritter.
- blogTO notes that the Toronto vs everybody T-shirt has been redone in the original Iroquoian.
- Centauri Dreams considers Project Orion.
- Dangerous Minds shares vintage North Korean anti-American art.
- The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting that Mars' climate ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- blogTO considers some of the spendthrift things a millionaire could do in Toronto.
- James Bow remembers his 9/11 experience.
- Crasstalk features an essay by a New Yorker reflecting on her 9/11.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog reflects on how white power and white powerlessness can co-exist.
- Language Hat shares one book's evaluation of Neapolitan dialect.
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[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- blogTO notes that Green Day will be headlining a festival in the Distillery District.
- Centauri Dreams looks at research into an interstellar solar sail.
- The Dragon's Gaze notes a study of brown dwarf populations.
- The Dragon's Tales looks at ancient Martian rivers and flood plains.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the protest of Colin Kaepernick.
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[BLOG] Some Friday links
- Beyond the Beyond links to an exhibition of art by a Brazilian inspired by War of the Worlds.
- blogTO shares photos of Vaughan's new library.
- Centauri Dreams reports on the difficulty of reaching Proxima b.
- The Dragon's Gaze reports on KS-39b, a hot Jupiter orbiting a subgiant.
- False Steps reports on a proposed late Soviet space shuttle.
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Beyond the Beyond notes some anti-drone activists' efforts to get drones controlled.
- blogTO reports on the history of the strip mall in Toronto, looks at the abandoned Whitney Block Tower by Queen's Park, and reports from the attic of Queen's Park.
- Discover's Body Horrors notes the possibility that global warming might lead to the reemergence of ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Friday links
- blogTO notes the 1970s, when Yonge around Queen was under reconstruction.
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her writing life in New York City.
- The Crux considers: Neandertal or Neanderthal?
- Dangerous Minds notes the new Laibach app.
- The Dragon's Gaze looks at evaporating hot Jupiter HD 209458b.
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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- blogTO shares some photos of Toronto in the gritty 1980s.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the habitable zones of post-main sequence stars.
- Far Outliers notes the ethnic rivalries among First World War prisoners in the Russian interior, and examines how Czechoslovakia got its independence.
- The Map Room Blog looks at the mapping technology ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Friday links
- blogTO writes about the impending installation of snooze stations across Toronto.
- Centauri Dreams considers the astrobiological implications of stromatolites.
- D-Brief notes that Titan has methane-flooded canyons.
- The Dragon's Gaze looks at the Kepler-444 system and notes studies of HR 8799.
- The Dragon's Tales notes an assassination attempt against a ( Read more... )