[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthrodendum offers resources for understanding race in the US post-Charlottesville.


• D-Brief notes that exoplanet WASP-12b is a hot Jupiter that is both super-hot and pitch-black.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining various models of ice-covered worlds and their oceans' habitability.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the value placed by society on different methods of transport.


• Far Outliers looks at how Chinese migrants were recruited in the 19th century.


• Hornet Stories notes that the authorship of famously bad fanfic, "My Immortal", has been claimed, by one Rose Christo.


• Marginal Revolution notes one explanation for why men are not earning more. (Bad beginnings matter.)


• Peter Watts has it with facile (and statistically ill-grounded) rhetoric about punching Nazis.


• At the NYR Daily, Masha Gessen is worried by signs of degeneration in the American body politic.


• Livejournal's pollotenchegg maps the strength of Ukrainian political divisions in 2006 and 2010.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is afraid what AI-enabled propaganda might do to American democracy in the foreseeable future.


• Roads and Kingdoms notes an enjoyable bagel breakfast at Pondichéry's Auroville Café.


• Drew Rowsome celebrates the introduction of ultra-low-cost carriers for flyers in Canada.


• Strange Company notes the 19th century haunting of an English mill.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Crimean Tatars, and Muslims in Crimea, are facing more repression.