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  • Centauri Dreams shares a proposal for unmanned probe missions to future incoming extrasolar asteroids like 'Oumuamua.

  • The Crux considers, in the context of recent (perhaps surprising) context, how scientists will one day record dreams.

  • Hornet Stories shares the report on a poll of younger gay people about the idea of monogamous relations versus open ones, suggesting there are signs a strong preference for monogamy isn't well thought out.

  • Imageo notes that global warming, by leading to the breakup of icecaps, will worsen the sea ice hazard to maritime shipping.

  • JSTOR Daily notes how social workers are called to support serious social reform.

  • Language Hat notes a monument to the Cyrillic alphabet erected in Antarctica by Bulgarians.

  • In the era of Trump, Lingua Franca takes a look at the origin of the phrase "useful idiots".

  • Marginal Revolution notes a recent article observing the decline of German cuisine in the United States. Who, or what, will save it?

  • At the Planetary Society Blog, Emily Lakdawalla talks about the latest exciting discoveries from Titan, including the odd distribution of nitrogen in its atmosphere and surface.

  • Towleroad notes how the discomfort of Ben Carson with transgender people leads him to consider the needs of homeless transgender people as secondary to this discomfort.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests that Cossacks in Russia are close to gaining recognition as a separate people.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell suggests--jokes?--that intellectual history from 1900 can be explained substantially in terms of the uncritical adoption of a nomad science, starting from race science and continuing to today with Harry Potter.

  • Arnold Zwicky <a href="https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/22/the-sociolinguistics-of-chicano-english-sh-ch-in-el-barrio/><U>shares</u></a> a post reporting on a PhD student's thesis, studying features of Chicano English.</li> </ul>
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