[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• D-Brief considers if gas giant exoplanet Kelt-9b is actually evaporating.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper that considers where to find signs of prior indigenous civilizations in our solar system. (The Moon, Mars, and outer solar system look good.


• Joe. My. God. reveals the Israeli nuclear option in the 1967 war.


• Language Log shares a clip of a Nova Scotia Gaelic folktale about a man named Donald.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the ongoing deportations of Hispanic undocumented migrants from the United States.


• The LRB Blog notes the brittle rhetoric of May and the Conservatives.


• The NYRB Daily mourns the Trump Administration's plans for American education.


• Savage Minds considers the world now in the context of the reign of the dangerous nonsense of Neil Postman.


• Strange Maps shares a map documenting the spread of chess from India to Ireland in a millennium.


• Window on Eurasia argues that the Russian government needs to do more to protect minority languages.