[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the remarkably enduring supernova iPTF14hls, which seems to have attained its longevity through massive amounts of antimatter.


• blogTO notes plans for the construction of a new public square in Chinatown, on Huron Street.


• James Bow shares a short story of his, set in a future where everyone has a guaranteed minimum income but few have a job.


• A poster at Crasstalk shares a nostalgic story about long-lost summers as a child in Albuquerque in the 1960s.


• Bruce Dorminey reports on Universe, a beautiful book concerned with the history of astronomical imagery.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog explores the latent and manifest functions of education for job-seekers.


• Far Outliers' Joel talks about the Red Terror imposed by Lenin in 1918, and its foreshadowing of the future of the Soviet Union.


• Language Hat links to a lovely analysis of a Tang Chinese poem, "On the Frontier."


• Language Log notes how the name of Chinese food "congee" ultimately has origins in Dravidian languages.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes note of the suspicious timing of links between the Trump family and Wikileaks.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen recounts his visit to an Amazon bookstore, and what he found lacking (or found good).


• The NYR Daily notes the continuing controversy over the bells of the church of Balangiga, in the Philippines, taken as booty in 1901 by American forces and not returned.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders why Canadian incomes and productivity have historically been 20-30% lower than those of the United States, and why incomes have lately caught up.


• Roads and Kingdoms considers the simple pleasures of an egg and cracker snack in the Faroe Islands.


• Strange Company considers the bizarre 1910 murder of Massachusetts lawyer William Lowe Rice.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes an Australian publisher that suspended publication of a book in Australia for fear of negative reaction from China.


• Arnold Zwicky shares some photos of his orchids, blooming early because of warm temperatures.