[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• D-Brief reports on Ceres' bright spots.


• Dangerous Minds celebrates the video game arcades of the 1980s.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper speculating that tightly-packed globular clusters might be good cradles for life.


• The Dragon's Tales examines the processes by which gravel is formed on Mars and Titan.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog wonders about the extent to which college alienates low-income students.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is critical of Hillary Clinton's speech at AIPAC.


• The LRB Blog features an essay by an American expatriate in Belgium on the occasion of the Brussels attacks.


• Steve Munro analyses the quality of service on the 6 Bay bus.


• The NYRB Daily reflects on the films of a Syrian film collective.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer points out that the rate of terrorism in Europe now is substantially lower than in the 1970s and 1980s.


• Savage Minds considers secrecy as it applies to the anthropological writer.


• Strange Maps reflects on the BBC's Shipping Forecast weather service.


• Whatever's John Scalzi reflects on the prospects of human survival into the future.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are on the verge of fighting a border war.