[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams reports on the work of the MASCOT rover on asteroid Ryugu.


• The Crux considers the critical role of the dolphin in the thinking of early SETI enthusiasts.


• D-Brief goes into more detail about the import of the Soyuz malfunction for the International Space Station.


• Dangerous Minds notes an artist who has made classic pop song lyrics, like Blue Monday, into pulp paperback covers.


• Earther is entirely correct about how humans will need to engage in geoengineering to keep the Earth habitable.


• David Finger at The Finger Post describes his visit to Accra, capital of Ghana.


• Gizmodo notes a new paper suggesting that, in some cases where massive moons orbit far from their parent planet, these moons can have their own moons.


• Hornet Stories shares the first look at Ruby Rose at Batwoman.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how the image of southern California and Los Angeles changed from a Mediterranean paradise with orange trees to a dystopic urban sprawl.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money imagines what might have happened to the navy of China had it not bought the Ukrainian aircraft carrier Varyag.


• Lingua Franca at the Chronicle reports on how the actual length of "minute", as euphemism for a short period of time, can vary between cultures.


• The LRB Blog reports on the disaster in Sulawesi, noting particularly the vulnerability of colonial-era port settlements in Indonesia to earthquakes and tsunamis.


• The Map Room Blog shares Itchy Feet's funny map of every European city.


• The New APPS Blog wonders if the tensions of capitalism are responsible for the high rate of neurological health issues.


• The NYR Daily considers what, exactly, it would take to abolish ICE.


• At the Planetary Society Weblog, Ian Regan talks about how he assembled a photoanimated flyover of Titan using probe data.


• Roads and Kingdoms explores some excellent pancakes in the Malaysian state of Sabah with unusual ingredients.


• Drew Rowsome raves over a new documentary looking at the life of opera star Maria Callas.


• Window on Eurasia notes the continued high rate of natural increase in Tajikistan.