[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• The Crux considers the idea that lower food consumption can lead to greater longevity.


• D-Brief notes an English field of barley grown entirely by robots.


• Language Hat wonders if Brexit means that EU English will start to diverge from the norms of the United Kingdom.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money shares an article taking issue with sports fans' treatment of players.


• The LRB Blog notes that Nicaragua has signed up to climate-change accords, leaving only the United States.


• The Map Room Blog links to a new atlas of the Irish Revolution.


• Marginal Revolution notes that the economy of Turkey is doing surprisingly well.


• The Planetary Society Blog takes a look at the sorts of technology needed to survive on Mars.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, for their detection of gravitational waves.


• Towleroad shares Mashrou' Leila's condemnation of Egyptian authorities for arresting people waving the rainbow flag.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes, in passing, the hard work needed to keep artificial intelligences from being racist.


• Arnold Zwicky links to an interactive map of the bookstores of San Francisco.