[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams links to archival video painstakingly collected from the Voyager missions.


• Citizen Science Salon notes ways ordinary people can use satellite imagery for archaeological purposes.


• Good news: Asian carp can't find a fin-hold in Lake Michigan. Bad news: The lake is so food-deprived nothing lives there. The Crux reports.


• D-Brief notes that, once every second, a fast radio burst occurs somewhere in the universe.


• Dangerous Minds looks at the psychedelic retro-futurism of Swedish artist Kilian Eng.


• Dead Things notes the recovery of ancient human DNA from some African sites, and what this could mean for study.


• Cody Delistraty reconsiders the idea of the "coming of age" narrative. Does this make sense now that we have abandoned the idea of a unitary self?


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the evolution of icy bodies around different post-main sequence stars.


• The Great Grey Bridge's Philip Turner notes anti-Putin dissident Alexei Navalny.


• Hornet Stories notes reports of anti-gay persecution in Azerbaijan.


• Language Log takes a look at the dialectal variations of southern Ohio.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money starts a discussion about what effective disaster relief for Puerto Rico would look like.


• The LRB Blog looks at the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Mexico, and the story of the buried girl who was not there.


• Marginal Revolution notes that Toronto real estate companies, in light of rent control, are switching rental units over to condos.


• Naked Anthropologist Laura Agustín takes a look at the origins and stories of migrant sex workers.


• The NYR Daily talks about the supposedly unthinkable idea of nuclear war in the age of Trump.


• Drew Rowsome gives a strongly positive--and deserved review to the Minmar Gaslight show The Seat Next to the King, a Fringe triumph now playing at the Theatre Centre.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how so many outer-system icy worlds have liquid water.


• Towleroad features Jim Parsons' exploration of how important is for him, as a gay man, to be married.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russian language policy limiting minority languages in education could backfire, and wonders if Islamization one way people in an urbanizing North Caucasus are trying to remain connected to community.