[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams considers the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe to Bennu.


• D-Brief notes that the core and the crust of dwarf planet Ceres apparently rotate at different speeds.


• Dangerous Minds shares the early glam rock of Rick Springfield.


• Gizmodo looks at the discovery of a new, oddly faint, sort of supernova explosion, one that explains how neutron stars can ever be so close as to collide.


• JSTOR Daily examines the concept of mana, the mystical power that can be generated by the act of speech.


• The LRB Blog considers how humanity will ever be able to address the rising sea, through geoengineering or techniques still more new to us.


• Window on Eurasia wonders if Belarus is likely to be the new target of Russian expansionism.