[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her rules for life.


• The Crux explores the development of robots that can learn from each other.


• JSTOR Daily explores the legal and environmental reasons why commercial supersonic flight never took off.


• Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money imagines what might have been had the F-14 Tomcat never escaped development hell.


• Peter Watts wonders if, with de-extinction becoming possible, future generations might become even less careful with the environment, knowing they can fix things and never bothering to do so.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw argues that, with MOOCs and multiple careers in a working lifespan, autodidacticism is bound to return.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Marc Rayman looks at the final orbits of the Dawn probe over Ceres and the expected scientific returns.


• Roads and Kingdoms explores the New Jersey sandwich known, alternatively, as the Taylor ham and the pork roll.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers what led to the early universe having an excess of matter over antimatter.


• Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy explores why the California Supreme Court took the trifurcation of California off referendum papers.


• Window on Eurasia notes how some in independent Azerbaijan fears that Iranian ethnic Azeris might try to subvert the independent country's secularism.