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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Anthropology.net notes the importance of anthropological knowledge in understanding the West African Ebola crisis.
- Centauri Dreams looks at the strange protoplanetary belt of GG Tauri-A.
- Discover's Crux considers requirements for a starfaring civilization.
- The Dragon's Gaze points to an apparently young and planet-forming binary star, OGLE-LMC-ECL- ( Read more... )
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[NEWS] Some Monday links
- Al Jazeera notes the rivalry between the Islamic State and al-Qaeda, observes claims of persecution by evangelical Christians of followers of traditional African religions in Brazil, notes that separatism is unpopular in Scotland's border regions, considers the problems of a beetle theme park in the penumbra of Japan's Fukushima, looks at a ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- blogTO notes that the Global Village Backpackers building on the northeast corner of King and Spadina is up for sale.
- Centauri Dreams and the Planetary Society Blog both comment on the almost last-minute search by the Hubble space telescope for Kuiper belt objects to be targets for the New Horizons probe after it passes Pluto.
- Crooked Timber's Corey ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- blogTO has a visual history of the Toronto Islands up.
- Centauri Dreams looks at GU Piscium b and Beta Pictoris b.
- The Dragon's Tales links to a paper examining two concepts for theoretical nuclear fusion-fueled space drives, one using additional coolant and one not.
- Eastern Approaches examines the disastrous floods in the former Yugoslavia.
- Joe. My. ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Friday links
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly makes the point that photography can help people understand their world that more thoroughly.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to an analysis of the atmosphere of superhot hot Jupiter WASP 12b.
- The Dragon's Tales notes that Greenland's geography has survived millions of years of ice, and notes reports that Israel apparently ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- io9 notes that apparently circumbinary planets and their moons--planets orbiting two stars which themselves closely orbit each other--might be better-suited to life than planets orbiting single stars.
- Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster reacts to Karl Schroeder's Lockstep, an imagining of a far future where slower-than-light travel is compensated for by ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
- blogTO plausibly suggests that a corner of northwestern Toronto, in Etobicoke, has the worst transit service in Toronto.
- Charlie Stross' suggested at his weblog that some kind of in-flight depressurization was the only explanation for the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight ML380 that didn't involve human malice. (Alas, as noted in the ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links (2)
- Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait approves of the names of Pluto's two most recently-discovered moons, Kereberos and Styx.
- Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling observes that Altavista is set to disappear from the Internet as of the 8th.
- Daniel Drezner notes that the inability of Edward Snowden to find a country to grant him, buster of state secrets, asylum ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Bag News Notes takes a look at the political iconography surrounding Chinese first lady, and patriotic singer, Peng Liuang.
- BCer in Toronto Jeff Jedras doesn't like suggestion like the one made by Liberal leadership candidate Joyce Murray that, in order to bring down Harper, the NDP and Liberals should consider not running candidates in ridings ( Read more... )
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[BLOG] Some Friday links
- Bruce Sterling, at Beyond the Beyond, takes a look at the applications of statistical analysis to the study of literature. (Apparently Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott were hugely influential.)
- Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster describes the latest on the nascent planetary system of TW Hydrae, a very young orange dwarf two hundred light-years away.
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