[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• 'Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith writes about how allies should not accidentally inflict trauma.


• Centauri Dreams looks at Juno's findings from Jupiter.


• Dangerous Minds shares the photos of mid-20th century Japanese surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting the large majority of potentially habitable exoplanets have not been sterilized by gamma ray bursts.


• Language Hat links to a New Yorker short story examining life in a university linguistics class.


• Language Log argues, based on some questionable evidence, that either Chinese will transition to a Romanized script or English will start to displace written Chinese.


• The Map Room Blog links to the MacLean's review of the Nova Scotia Community College's Centre of Geographic Sciences.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw reflects on the history and future of Denmark's relationship with Australia.


• Savage Minds wonders what future the traditional anthropological academy has under Trump.


• Towleroad links to a crowdfunding effort for Leo Herrera's film Founders, which will imagine a gay world unmarked by AIDS and where now departed luminaries of the 1980s and 1990s continue to exert influence. The last I checked, Herrera is already two-thirds of the way to his thirty thousand dollar goal.