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  • 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).

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