[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy notes that a NASA probe has photographed the site on Mars where the ESA's Schiaparelli lander crashed.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about being an immigrant, of sorts, in the United States.


• C.J. Cherry announces that work on her history of the Alliance-Union universe is continuing.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper looking at the ionization of protoplanetary disks by cosmic radiations.


• The Dragon's Tales finds evidence for Planet Nine in the orbits of Kuiper Belt objects and the inner Oort cloud.


• Far Outliers looks at the culture of addiction in Appalachia.


• Joe. My. God. notes how a Russian embassy has mocked the European Union for defending GLBT rights.


• Language Log looks at the sounds made by speakers of English, native and Chinese-language mother tongue both.


• The Map Room Blog links to a map of the river basins of the United States.


• Torontoist looks at the history of clowns in Toronto.


• Window on Eurasia looks at how Central Asia is non-Muslim, reports a call for a historical reorientation of Azerbaijan, reports on a Tatar dramatist's fear that Russia is trying to assimilate non-Russians, and looks at how a court in Sakha has defended the constitutional rights of the republic and its titular people.