[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 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>