[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Centauri Dreams anticipates Ceres.


• Crooked Timber notes Big Oil is turning against Big Coal.


• Geocurrents shares Martin Lewis' slides on Nigeria.


• Language Hat, reflecting on Irish and Hebrew, considers language change and shift.


• Language Log examines the historical American broadcast r-less accent.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money wants a good history of the Occupy movement.


• The New APPS Blog wonders what philosophical work might look like as technology and modes of scholarship evolve.


• The Power and Money's Noel Maurer looks at Mexico's political parties.


• Towleroad notes controversy in Houston over elderly LGBT housing and relations with police.


• The Volokh Conspiracy argues against the policies that led to Orange Telecom's withdrawal from the Israeli occupied territories.


• Window on Eurasia looks at Russification, notes how Russia's satellite program depends on American imports, and looks at the military incapacity of Tajikistan versus foreign threats like ISIS.