[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams shares a cool design for a mid-21st century Triton landing mission.


• Crooked Timber argues American conservative intellectuals have descended to hackwork.


• D-Brief notes the surprisingly important role that eyebrows may have played in human evolution.


• Dead Things notes how a hominid fossil discovery in the Arabian desert suggests human migration to Africa occurred almost 90 thousand years ago, longer than previously believed.


• Hornet Stories notes that biphobia in the LGBTQ community is one factor discouraging bisexuals from coming out.


• At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox gives a favourable review to Wendell Berry's latest, The Art of Loading Brush.


• JSTOR Daily explores the connections between Roman civilization and poisoning as a means for murder.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how the early 20th century American practice of redlining, denying minorities access to good housing, still marks the maps of American cities.


• The LRB Blog notes how the 1948 assassination of reformer Gaitan in Bogota changed Colombia and Latin America, touching the lives of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Fidel Castro.


• The Map Room Blog notes that Spacing has launched a new contest, encouraging creators of inventive maps of Canadian cities to do their work.


• The NYR Daily notes a new exhibit of Victorian art that explores its various mirrored influences, backwards and forwards.


• At the Planetary Society Blog, Jason Davis explores TESS, the next generation of planet-hunting astronomy satellite from NASA.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares photos of planetary formation around sun-like star TW Hydrae.


• Window on Eurasia notes that a combination of urbanization, Russian government policy, and the influence of pop culture is killing off minority languages in Russia.