[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares the latest images of asteroid Ryugu.


• Centauri Dreams reports on the equal-mass near-Earth asteroid binary 2017 YE5.


• Far Outliers notes how corrosive fake news and propaganda can be, by looking at Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War.


• The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas looks at swarms versus networks, in the light of Bauman's thinking on freedom/security.


• Joe. My. God. reports on how American pharmacy chain PVS fired a man--a Log Cabin Republican, no less--for calling the police on a black customer over a coupon.


• JSTOR Daily links to a paper making the case that national service plays a useful role in modern countries.


• Language Hat quotes from a beautiful Perry Anderson essay at the LRB about Proust.


• Jeffey Herlihy-Mera writes/u> at Lingua Franca about his first-hand experiences of the multilingualism of Ecuador.


• The NYR Daily takes a look at the art created by the prominent members of the Romanov dynasty.


• The Power and Money's Noel Maurer has reposted a blog post from 2016 considering the question of just how much money the United States could extract, via military basing, from Germany and Japan and South Korea


• Window on Eurasia <>suggests a new Russian language law that would marginalize non-Russian languages is provoking a renaissance of Tatar nationalism.