[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning images, from Jupiter, of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter, and analysis.


• Hornet Stories notes that a reboot of 1980s animation classic She-Ra is coming to Netflix.


• io9 carries reports suggesting that the new X-Men Dark Phoenix movie is going to have plenty of good female representation. Here's to hoping. It also notes that the seminal George Lucas short film "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" is viewable for free online, but only for a short while.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that IQ score, more than education, is the single biggest factor explaining why a person might become an inventor.


• The NYR Daily looks at the alliance rightfully called "unholy" between religious militants and the military in Pakistan.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer explains how the strong social networks of Italian migrants in Argentina a century ago helped them eventually do better than native-born Argentines (and Spanish immigrants, too).


• Roads and Kingdoms notes the simple joys of pupusas, Salvadoran tortillas, on a rainy day in Vancouver.


• Towleroad reports on interesting research suggesting that gay men are more likely to have older brothers, even suggesting a possible biological mechanism for this.

Window on Eurasia notes reports of fights between Russian and Muslim students at Russian centres of higher education.