[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture shares photos from the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of colleagues for solitary writers.


• D-Brief notes the rediscovery of the Blue-Eyed Ground Dove in Brazil, once believed extinct.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes reports of the discovery of massive planets via gaps in the protoplanetary disks of HL Tauri and HD 135344B.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a paper making specific projections about the shape of the Kuiper Belt if Planet Nine was around.


• A Fistful of Euros speculates as to the severity of the United Kingdom's post-Brexit recession.


• Language Log considers writing Shanghainese.


• The LRB Blog remembers Madeleine Lebeau, last survivor of the cast of Casablanca.


• Marginal Revolution engages with Peter Thiel's funding of Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes sterling work reclaiming distorted images from the Voyager probes.


• pollotenchegg reports on the origins of migrants to Kyiv.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer reports on Puerto Rico.


• Seriously Science notes that wild boar apparently wash their food before eating.


• Window on Eurasia looks at Putin's traditionalism, wonders if there might be a Russian Olympics boycott to spare the country the shame of being excluded, speculates about the North Caucasus' future within Russia, and reports Ukrainian worries of being isolated versus Russia.