[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthro{dendum} examines the politics and the problems involved with accurately representing the history of Taiwan to the world.


• Centauri Dreams notes a paper suggesting not only that it is possible for a pulsar to have a circumstellar habitable zone, but that the known worlds of PSR B1257+12 might well fall into this zone. (!) D-Brief also looks at the topic of pulsar planets and circumstellar habitable zones.


• The Crux reports on how some students are making the case that robotic cricket farming could help feed the world.


• Dangerous Minds shares some Carlo Farneti illustrations for an edition of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal.


• Cody Delistraty writes about the last days of a Paris store, Colette.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that an infrared search for Planet Nine, using WISE and NEOWISE, has turned up nothing.


• JSTOR Daily talks about how the spectre of "white slavery" was used a century ago, in the United States, to justify Progressive reformers.


• Language Hat reports on a former diplomat's efforts to translate the traditional poetry of Najd, in central Saudi Arabia.


• Language Log takes a look at the ways in which zebra finches learn song, when raised in isolation and otherwise.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money argues in favour of putting up new monuments, to better people, in place of old Confederate memorials.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that the food desert effect is limited, that if poor people choose not to eat healthy foods this relates to their choice not to a lack of options for buying said.


• The Planetary Society Blog reports on China's interest in a Mars sample return mission.


• Seriously Science reports a paper claiming straight women tend to prefer to get dating advice from gay men to getting it from other women.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes the point that, without much more funding for NASA, there is going to be no American return to the Moon.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Tatarstan will no longer be providing Tatar inserts for Russian passport users, a sign of Tatarstan's drifting towards the Russian mainstream.