[BLOG] Some Sunday links

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• Centauri Dreams analyzes the latest suggestive findings about water on potentially habitable exoplanets of TRAPPIST-1.


• A Game of Thrones-themed cat bed, as described by Dangerous Minds, is almost tempting. (Almost.)


• Hornet Stories takes a brief look at what the Nazis were like for, and did to, queers.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Texas' secretary of state turned down an aid offer from Québec, asking only for prayers.


• Language Hat looks at the ways in which different African writers have glossed Africa in their works.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper looking at the effect that serious floods have on cities' long-run economic growth.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes the discovery of sunken garum-exporting Neapolis off of the coast of Tunisia.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the latest ventures of the Opportunity rover as winter approaches on Mars.


• Roads and Kingdoms notes the Café Touba coffee of Senegal, sign of resistance to colonialism and globalization.


• Window on Eurasia notes a proposal in Russia to memorialize Muslims who resisted changing traditional value systems.