[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on the naming of the features of the surface of Ceres.


• D-Brief notes that small-scale robotic manufacturing is now a thing.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on a new study of exoplanets and their stars.


• The Dragon's Tales has a nice round-up of news on hominin research and primates generally.


• Hornet Stories notes that there is apparently a debate about women as drag queens. I don't see why they should not, frankly.


• Joe. My. God links to a Rolling Stone article celebrating Erotica and Sex, by Madonna, on their 25th anniversary.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the way Dollar General caters to a permanent underclass. Like Dollarama in Canada?


• Language Hat notes that Xibe, related to Manchu, is receiving protection from China.


• The NYR Daily reports on the mass killings, approaching genocide, in Indonesia in 1965.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the proofs we have for the current age of the universe.

Comments

[tavella]

That Dollar General story is certainly depressing:

“Essentially what the dollar stores are betting on in a large way is that we are going to have a permanent underclass in America. It’s based on the concept that the jobs went away, and the jobs are never coming back, and that things aren’t going to get better in any of these places.”