[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthrodendum shares an essay by Yana Stainova talking about restoring a sense of enchantment to ethnography.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at NGTS-1b, a hot Jupiter unusually orbiting a red dwarf star, as does Centauri Dreams.


• D-Brief looks at how the relativistic jets of matter issuing from central black holes in active galaxies work.


• Hornet Stories notes an upcoming revival of Boys in the Band by Ryan Murphy, with Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer.


• Joe. My. God. notes that 28% of those polled worldwide would favour recriminalizing homosexuality.


• Language Hat looks at the role played by Italian dialect in games of bocce.


• Marginal Revolution links to a study examining some of the structural economic failings of socialism in Yugoslavia.


• Neuroskeptic wonders if there should be a place where people can make use of perfectly good abandoned data sets.


• Understanding Society looks at the yawning gap between social science theories and actual policies.


• Window on Eurasia notes how above-average immigrant fertility helps keep birth rates up in Moscow.