Link round up
- Is PowerPoint a Turing machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=329&v=uNjxe8ShM-8
- More on book covers, this time academic book covers and why they should be attractive http://dimitrafimi.com/first-impressions-count-on-academic-book-covers/
- An interracial marriage in Georgian England http://www.riskyregencies.com/2017/05/19/a-documented-interracial-marraige-in-georgian-england/
- Cora on space opera http://corabuhlert.com/2017/05/20/what-is-it-that-makes-space-opera-so-good/
- And Liz Bourke on space opera http://www.tor.com/2017/05/18/space-opera-and-the-question-of-empire-from-david-weber-to-yoon-ha-lee/
- PZ Myers on Rafael Núñez and numbers and why they are like snowboarding http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/05/20/where-do-numbers-come-from/
- Jack Graham on Doctor Who’s Oxygen http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/last-gasp/
- OK and Cora again – redeeming Jupiter Ascending to the extent that I’ll have to rewatch it with less jaundiced eyes. http://corabuhlert.com/2015/03/07/the-disparate-reviews-of-jupiter-ascending/
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Thanks for the links, Camestros. If you do rewatch Jupiter Ascending, let us know what you think about it.
That article on the importance of attractive book covers for academic books is great as well, especially since German language academic publishers are so very very bad at this.
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