[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams shares a proposal for the relatively rapid industrialization of space in a few short years using smart robots with 3d printign technology.


• To what extent, as Crooked Timber speculates, the Arthurian myth complex science fictional?


• Dangerous Minds shares a lovely middle-finger-raised candle.


• The Dragon's Gaze looks at the interactions between atmospheres and rotation for super-Earths and Venus-like worlds.


• Joe. My. God. notes Wikileaks' call for Trump's tax returns.


• Language Hat shares some words peculiar to Irish English.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that the words of Trump are meaningless.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cown considers some scenarios where nuclear weapons may end up being used.


• The Russian Demographics Blog looks at births and deaths in Russia between 2000 and 2015.


• Savage Minds considers, inspired by the recent Michel Foucault read-in protest to Trump, the relationships between Foucault's thinking and racism.


• Window on Eurasia calls for a post-imperial Russian national identity, argues that Trump's assault on globalization will badly hurt a Russia dependent on foreign trade and investment, and wonders what Putin's Russia can actually offer Trump's United States.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell offers a unique strategy for journalists interested at penetrating Trump's shell: trick them into over-answering.