[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Adam Fish at Anthro{dendum} takes a look at the roles of drones in capitalism, here.


• Bad Astronomy talks about the discovery of a nascent planet in orbit of young star PDS 70.


• Centauri Dreams notes what the discovery of a Charon eclipsing its partner Pluto meant, for those worlds and for astronomy generally.


• D-Brief notes a demographic study of Italian centenarians suggesting that, after reaching the age of 105, human mortality rates seem to plateau. Does this indicate the potential for further life expectancy increases?


• Dead Things shares the result of a genetics study of silkworms. Where did these anchors of the Silk Road come from?


• Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog considers the role of the side hustle in creative professions.


• Far Outliers reports on the time, in the 1930s, when some people in Second Republic Poland thought that the country should acquire overseas colonies.


• Hornet Stories reports on how, in earlier centuries, the English word "pinke" meant a shade of yellow.


• JSTOR Daily reports on how, nearly two decades later, Sex and the City is still an influential and important piece of pop culture.


• Language Hat links to Keith Gessen's account, in The New Yorker, about how he came to teach his young son Russian.


• Lingua Franca, at the Chronicle of Higher Education, reports on the decent and strongly Cuban Spanish spoken by Ernest Hemingway.


• The NYR Daily looks at the mystique surrounding testosterone, the powerful masculinizing hormone.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer shares his thoughts on the election, in Mexico, of left-leaning populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Worst-case scenarios aren't likely to materialize in the short and medium terms, at least.


• Vintage Space notes how, at the height of the Cold War, some hoped to demonstrate American strength by nuking the Moon. (Really.)


• Window on Eurasia links to an essayist who suggests that Russia should look to America as much as to Europe for models of society.