[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• D-Brief notes that, with the Dawn probe unresponsive, its mission to Vesta and Ceres is now over.


• The Dragon's Tales reports that NASA is seeking commercial partners to deliver cargo to the proposed Gateway station.


• JSTOR Daily looks back to a time where chestnuts were a staple food in Appalachia.


• Language Log takes a look at prehistoric words in Eurasia for honey, in Indo-European and Old Sinitic.


• Joy Katz at the LRB Blog writes about her lived experience of the conventional Pittsburgh neighbourhood of Squirrel Hill, a perhaps unlikely scene of tragedy.


• The Map Room Blog links to an interactive map showing the Québec election results.


• Marginal Revolution links to that New York Magazine article about young people who do not vote to start a discussion.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at the real dangers faced by Venezuelan refugees in the northern Brazilian state of Roraima, at the start of the era of Bolsonaro.


• Window on Eurasia argues that changes to the Russian census allowing people to identify with multiple ethnicities could lead to a sharp shrinking in the numbers of minority nationalities.