[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Centauri Dreams takes a look at how new technology makes access to deep-sky astronomical images easier than ever, allowing for the recovery of more data.


• The Crux considers the factors that make humans so inclined to believe in the existence of god and the supernatural, including our pattern-recognition skills.


• D-Brief sharesa the latest research into the origins of the atmospheric haze of Titan.


• Todd Schoepflin at the Everyday Sociology Blog has an intriguing post performing ethnography on the fans of the Buffalo Bills.


• At A Fistful of Euros, Alexander Harrowell notes one thing to take from the elections in Bavaria is the remarkable strength of the Greens, nearing the CDU/CSU nationally.


• io9 shares the delightful Alien-themed maternity photos of a British Columbia couple.


• JSTOR Daily looks at contesting visions of motherhood among American feminists in the 1960s and 1970s.


• Language Hat reports on "The Midnight Court", a poem written in the 19th century in a now-extinct dialect of Irish.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes one astounding possible defense of Saudi Arabia faced with Jamal Khashoggi, that his death was accidental.


• Christine Gordon Manley shares with her readers her words and her photos of Newfoundland's dramatic Signal Hill.


• The NYR Daily shares the witness of Käthe Kollwitz to the end of the First World War and the German Empire in 1918-1919.


• Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog criticizes First Man for not showing the excitement of Armstrong and the other Apollo astronauts.


• Roads and Kingdoms reports on one woman's search for the Korean cornbread remembered by her mother as a Korean War refugee.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares images of some of the most distant objects in the universe images by us so far.


• Strange Company expands upon the interesting life of early modern English travel writer Thomas Coryat, who indeed does deserve more attention.


• Window on Eurasia wonders where protests in Ingushetia regarding border changes with Chechnya are going.


• Arnold Zwicky explores the fable of the forest that identified too closely with the wooden handle of an ax.