[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams looks at debris disks, and potential planetary formation, around red giant stars.


• Crooked Timber notes the Bitcoin frenzy.
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• The Dragon's Gaze looks at studies of the atmospheres of hot Jupiters.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money cannot understand skepticism about the harmful nature of the waters of the Michigan city of Flint.


• The LRB Blog notes that The Gruffalo is a product of Anglo-German collaboration. Is it a product of the European Union?


• The Planetary Society Blog notes that the joint ESA/Roscosmos Exo-Mars probe is set to launch.


• The Signal notes a new project to digitize the corpus of Persian-language literature dating back a millennium.


• Understanding Society looks at social facts and their non-linear origins.


• The Volokh Conspiracy reports on a paper by on of their authors written in defense of Israel's borders.


• The Financial Times' The World notes the exceptional fragility of Italian banks.