[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that the Earth can easily survive without us.


• blogTO notes that the Aga Khan Museum recently made an appearance in Star Trek: Discovery, as Vulcan.


• Centauri Dreams notes the way neutron star collisions and kilonovas can be used to examine physical laws in extreme circumstances.


• Hornet Stories notes that trans political candidate Danica Roem, in Virginia, is getting lots of positive attention.


• The LRB Blog visits Gdansk only to find popular anti-Muslim xenophobia thriving.


• The NYR Daily looks at photographic and other legacies of the Jamaica dancehall scene.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the evolution of SETI from the 1960s to the present.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at the struggle of astronomers, in West Texas and elsewhere, to preserve dark skies.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the ways in which GW170817 has confirmed the Standard Model.


• Window on Eurasia argues that reactionary conservatism in Russia is making that country's HIV/AIDS epidemic worse.