[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthrodendum takes a look at how surfing has been commodified.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the stellar occultation that has revealed information about MU69, the next New Horizons target.


• Crooked Timber's Corey Robin takes issue with Mélenchon's take on anti-Semitism and the French role in the Holocaust.


• D-Brief notes that we really are not good at detecting faked photos.


• Dangerous Minds shares some vintage photos of strippers from the 1960s.


• Michael Sacasas of The Frailest Things looks, again, at the technologically enchanted world.


• Language Log takes issue with the dismissive treatment of "... in a woodpile." The expression is poison.


• The LRB Blog looks at the dual position of the camel among the Sahrawi, as wild and tame at once.


• Neuroskeptic looks at the problems of neuroscience, statistically.


• The NYR Daily considers the hacking of the American vote. Who did it? Who gained?


• Science Sushi notes that climate change threats African wild dogs' survival.


• Window on Eurasia notes an Armenian argument that Russia lacks the soft power that the Soviet Union once enjoyed.