[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthrodendum considers the question of what, exactly, is the genre of ethnographic film.


• Centauri Dreams features authors' calls for a debate on METI, on sending messages to extraterrestrial intelligences.


• The Crux reports on the continuing damage caused by the continuing eruptions of Indonesia's mud volcano, Sidoarjo.


• Imageo shares a cute time-lapse video from Hubble showing the motion of Phobos around Mars.


• Language Hat responds to a newly-translated mid-19th century Russian novella, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya‘s 1861 novella Пансионерка (The Boarding School Girl).


• Lawyers, Guns and Money has a depressing extended examination of Trump as reflecting structural crisis in the United States.


• The LRB Blog looks at the genesis and continuing success of Nicaraguan Sign Language.


• The Map Room Blog shares a satirical map of Washington D.C., defined by the names that its metro stations should have.


• Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang lists the various worlds in our Solar System possibly hosting life, and notes how you could get an Earth-like world with wildly erratic seasons as in Game of Thrones.


• Unicorn Booty notes that the German president has signed marriage equality into law. (Also, the country has good LGBT protections.)


• Window on Eurasia notes that Putin is fine with an asymmetrical bilingualism in Russia's republics, aimed against non-Russian languages.