[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams considers the idea of uploading a digital "Golden Record" into the memory of New Horizons.


• Crooked Timber takes a look at American legal writer (and judge) Richard Posner's embrace of pragmatism. What does it mean?


• D-Brief notes the rapid melting of the glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper considering ways to detect planets in orbit of red giants.


• The LRB Blog considers the potential for political tumult in Saudi Arabia, in the wake of arrests and rumours.


• The Map Room Blog links to a new gravity map of Mars, revealing the crust of that world to be less dense and more variable than thought.


• The NYR Daily looks at the South China Sea dispute in the wake of Indonesia's newly restated claims.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at Philadelphia's seasonal cookie--spiced wafer--wars.


• Drew Rowsome is a big fan of the movie adaptation of It.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that, for want of better options, the Donbas republics' people might return to Ukraine.