[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
Jul. 10th, 2018 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
- Bad Astronomy notes the discovery of a distant exoplanet, orbiting subgiant EPIC248847494, with an orbit ten years long.
- Centauri Dreams reports on the latest discoveries regarding Ceres' Occator Crater, a place with a cryovolcanic past.
- D-Brief notes the discovery of a brilliant early galaxy, the brightest so far found, P352-15.
- Dangerous Minds shares an extended interview with Françoise Hardy.
- Far Outliers notes how, during the later Cold War, cash-desperate Soviet bloc governments allowed hopeful emigrants for countries in the West to depart only if these governments paid a ransom for them.
- Hornet Stories has a nice feature on Enemies of Dorothy, a LGBT sketch comedy group with a political edge. I saw some of their clips; I'm following them.
- JSTOR Daily looks at some of the features uniting celebratory music festival Coachella with Saturnalia, fitting the former into an ancient tradition.
- Language Hat reports on researchers studying the development of emojis. Are they becoming components of a communications system with stable meanings?
- Marginal Revolution reports on how mobile money is becoming a dominant element in the economy of Somaliland.
- Justine Petrone at North reports on the things that were, and were not, revealed about his family's ancestry through DNA testing.
- Melissa Chadburn writes at the NYR Daily about the food she ate growing up as a poor child, and its meaning for her then and now in a time of growing inequality.
- Roads and Kingdoms tells of a woman's experience drinking samsu, a clear rice liqueur, in Malacca.
- Drew Rowsome raves over David Kingston Yeh's debut novel, the queer Toronto-themed The Boy at the Edge of the World.
- Window on Eurasia quotes a Russian observer who suggests that Trump's attempt to disrupt the European Union, even if successful, might simply help make Germany into a strategic competitor to the United States (with benefits for other powers).