• Anthropology.net describes an effort to digitize tapes recording Navajo oral history.
• Centauri Dreams remembers Vera Rubin.
• D-Brief looks
  
• Dangerous Minds shares a 1984 TV clip featuring George Michael and Morrissey talking about Joy Division.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting a gas giant exoplanet might be indicated by a protoplanetary ( Read more... )

• 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.

• Beyond the Beyond notes how astronomers are now collecting dust from space in their gutters, without needing to go to Antarctica.
• blogTO notes the many lost dairies of mid-20th century Toronto.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at how volatiles freeze out in protoplanetary disks.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper considering the exploration of ocean worlds.
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• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith writes about Christmas cards and memory.
• blogTO notes the impending expansion of the Drake Hotel.
• The Broadside Blog describes a documentary, The Eagle Huntress, about a Mongolian teenage girl who becomes a hunter using eagles, that sounds spectacular.
• Crooked Timber asks readers to help a teenager who has been arrested by ( Read more... )

Wired's Emma Grey Ellis notes Russia's ongoing problems with its exploding rockets. What's up?

Last week, a Russian Progress cargo ship carrying supplies to the International Space Station burned up in the atmosphere when the Soyuz rocket carrying it failed just a few seconds after lift off. Surprising, because the Soyuz has been a spacefaring ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith tells the story of how he and his husband got the latest ornament for their tree.
• blogTO looks at Toronto Instagram star Aimee Hernandez.
• Language Hat parses the language of Wallace Stegner's fiction.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the worrying spread of smears and lies.
• Marginal Revolution looks at a musical highway in New ( Read more... )

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of truth in journalism.
• Crooked Timber looks at the example of Trump and wonders why that kind of charismatic authoritarianism is popular.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a model of the inner debris disk of HR 8799.
• Far Outliers looks at the cultural divergences between North and South Koreans.
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• blogTO shares photos of Toronto streets in the 1960s, cluttered by signage.
• Crooked Timber and the LRB Blog respond to the death of Fidel Castro.
• Far Outliers looks at the exploitative but functional British treatment of servants.
• Language Hat notes the insensitivity of machine translation and examines the evolution of the Spanish language.
• Lawyers, ( Read more... )

• blogTO shares some photos of Toronto in colour from the 1950s.
• Centauri Dreams talks about SETI in the light of the Anthropocene era.
• Dangerous Minds notes that there is now a hipster nativity scene available for purchase.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that tidal heating could explain the difference between super-Earths and mini- ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that York University is slated to have an architecturally interesting student centre.
• Centauri Dreams reports on new imaging of various protoplanetary disks.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on observations finetuning what is known about HD 209458b.
• Joe. My. God. notes the happiness of at least one white supremacist leader with the Trump victory ( Read more... )