[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning deep-field pictures of intergalactic space.


• Centauri Dreams shares the second part of Larry Klaes' analysis of Forbidden Planet.


• D-Brief suggests that controlled kangaroo hunting may be necessary for the ecological health of Australia.


• Bruce Dorminey notes a new radio telescope in British Columbia that may help solve the mystery of fast radio burst.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that quasars can irradiate a noteworthy fraction of potentially Earth-like planets.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money comes out against the idea of giving Amazon massive tax breaks for HQ2.


• The LRB Blog bids a fond farewell to Saturn probe Cassini.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting new ideas--hence, new sources of economic growth--are harder to come by.


• Maximos62 recounts a quietly chilling trip to East Timor where he discovers a landscape marked by genocide.


• The New APPS Blog is quite unsurprised by news that Russians may have used Facebook to manipulate the US election.


• At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane bids a fond farewell to colleague Len Wein.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw does not think Australia is committed enough to affordable housing to solve homelessness Finland-style.


• Roads and Kingdoms reports from the Suwalki Gap, the thin corridor joining the Baltic States to Poland.


• Peter Rukavina looks at how a storied land rover was recovered from St. Helena.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel lists the top six discoveries of Cassini at Saturn.


• Towleroad notes fundamentally misaimed criticism of new AI that determines sexual orientation from facepics.


• Window on Eurasia looks at contemporary Russian fears about the power of rising China in Russia's Asian territories.