[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber praises Candice Delmas' new book on the duty of resistance to injustice.


• D-Brief looks at how the designers of robots took lessons from wasps in designing a new robotic swarm that can pull relatively massive objects in flight.


• Dead Things notes new evidence that the now-extinct elephant birds of Madagascar were nocturnal.


• Far Outliers notes how the reeducation of Japanese prisoners of war by Chinese Communists helped influence American policy towards Japan, imagining a Japan that could be reformed away from imperialism.


• At the Island Review, Alex Ingram profiles--with photos--some of the many different people who are the lone guardians of different small isolated islands removed from the British mainland.


• JSTOR Daily notes how asteroids can preserve records of the distant past of the solar system.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money has contempt for Pence's use of Messianic Jews to stand in for the wider, non-Christian, Jewish community.


• At Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen considers the consequence that a decline of art galleries might have on the wider field of modern art.


• The NYR Daily considers the lessons that Thucydides, writing about Athens, might have for the United States now.


• Anjali Kumar at Roads and Kingdoms writes about a meal of technically illegal craft beer served with raw shrimp in Bangkok.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel illustrates the six different ways a star can end up in a supernova.


• Window on Eurasia notes that official Russian efforts to reach out to the Russian diaspora do not extend to non-Russian minorities' own diasporas, like that of the Circassians of the North Caucasus.


• Arnold Zwicky, starting by noting the passing of Dorcas, she who invented green bean casserole, looks at different pre-prepared foodstuffs.