[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.