[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte, loneliest galaxy in the Local Group.


• Centauri Dreams examines the recent detailed view of the star Antares, and notes Antares' mysteries.


• False Steps' Paul Drye notes Project Adam, a Sputnik-era proposal for a manned American suborbital flight.


• Far Outliers recounts a 1945 encounter between an American general and the Sultan of Sulu, impoverished by the war.


• Language Log notes the Sino-Indian propaganda video war over their border dispute in the Himalayas.


• The LRB Blog looks at the messy process of the demobilization of FARC in Colombia.


• Marginal Revolution looks at how Virginia has managed to become a multicultural success story.


• The NYR Daily looks at the photos of India taken by Cartier-Bresson.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders how, despite the drug war, Mexico City continues to feel (even be) so peaceful. Can it last?


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel goes through the many reasons why it makes no sense to fear first contact with aliens.


• Strange Company tells of Bunkie Dodge, pool-playing cat of early 20th century New England.


• Unicorn Booty notes that the new Taylor Swift song is inspired by Right Said Fred's "I'm So Sexy."


• Window on Eurasia shares an argument that an essentially post-colonial Russophone cultural community cannot coexist with a Russian empire.