[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait links to a beautiful music video showing highlights of the Moon.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about failure as a learning experience.


• Centauri Dreams writes about sensory associations, of how memories unite films and planets with things here on Earth.


• D-Brief notes that Japan's Hayabusa2 probe is looking for a place to land on asteroid Ryugu.


• Hornet Stories notes the plans of Russell T. Davies to launch a new dramatic series looking at the impact of AIDS in the UK in the 1980s.


• JSTOR Daily links to a paper suggesting Adam Smith would be unhappy with modern inequality, for the disincentives it provides the wealthy to be productive and not rentiers.


• The Planetary Society Blog explores what India has to do to meet its goal of launch an astronaut into space by 2022.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that not many worlds--not outer-system moons, not even the Kuiper belt--will survive the sun's red giant phase intact.


• Window on Eurasia reports on a rebellion of ethnic Russians in Grozny in 1958, protesting the return of the Chechens from Stalinist deportation.