[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Centauri Dreams considers the perhaps implausible magnetic sail.


• Crooked Timber looks at William Gibson's new novel, The Peripheral.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that half of all red dwarf stars might host Earth-like or super-Earth-like planets.


• D-Brief looks at the latest findings from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.


• Joe. My. God. notes Irish same-sex marriage activists turning to their Irish-American counterparts.


• Language Log considers the distinction, in official Chinese, between "accident" and "incident".


• The Planetary Society Blog considers the dynamics of the geysers and subsurface ocean of Enceladus.


• Savage Minds notes that the 17th of February is national anthropology day.


• Towleroad notes that Scotland has hosted its first pagan same-sex wedding.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes an odd dispute, one parent suing another for writing a book about their moderately famous autistic son.


• Window on Eurasia notes Russia's proposal to try a Russian soldier accused of murdering an Armenian family in a Russian court in Armenia, and points to armed unrest in Turkmenistan.