[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• Anthropology.net describes an effort to digitize tapes recording Navajo oral history.


• Centauri Dreams remembers Vera Rubin.


• D-Brief looks
  
• Dangerous Minds shares a 1984 TV clip featuring George Michael and Morrissey talking about Joy Division.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting a gas giant exoplanet might be indicated by a protoplanetary disk.


• Language Log reports on how Chinese netizens are criticizing pollution through the mockery of official slogans.


• Language Hat looks at the question of how the word "pecan" is pronounced.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money argues political science is not a science at all, like economics.


• The NYRB Daily notes that the shared inability of Trump and Putin to plan things and account for unexpected consequences does not lend itself to optimism.


• Window on Euruasia looks at Tatarstan's issues with regional transfer funding in Russia and shares an apocalyptic account of what will happen to Ukraine in the Russian sphere of influence.