[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthrodendum considers what, exactly, anthropology majors can do job-wise with their degrees. Interesting ideas.


• Centauri Dreams considers the possible origins of cometary organics in deep space.


• Hornet Stories talks of anti-immigrant Americans with immigrant ancestors who skirted relevant laws themselves, like Donald Trump.


• Language Hat considers byssus, an exotic ancient textile and a word with a complex history.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at how the potential for disaster in Florida is worsened by poor planning.


• The LRB Blog looks at the sad intersection of war, xenophobia, and rising rates of polio in Pakistan (and elsewhere).


• The Map Room Blog notes an interactive map-related play still showing at the Halifax Fringe, Cartography.


• The NYR Daily notes a high-profile corruption trial of a former government minister in Moscow.


• The Planetary Society Blog shares Paul Schenk's story about how he interned at JPL in 1979 for the Voyager 2 flyby.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at the search by a Brazilian man for caves in the south of that country.


• The Volokh Conspiracy asks some interesting questions about the mechanics of Settlers of Catan.


• At Whatever, John Scalzi remembers Jerry Pournelle.


• Window on Eurasia notes how Russia is strongly opposed to any Circassian return to their ancestral homeland.