[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• Centauri Dreams takes a look at the first generation of stars, starting with newly-discovered ancient 2MASS J18082002–5104378 B.
  
• Crooked Timber takes a look at the political opinions of different generations in the United States. Is there a shift about to happen?


• The Crux takes a look at the excavation of the floating pleasure palaces of Caligula in Italy's Lake Nemi, something showing the scope of Roman construction.


• D-Brief notes how scientists managed to trigger limb regrowth in frogs, with obvious potential for humans.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the many quiet ways in which the slaves of Arkansas resisted their domination by whites.


• Lingua Franca takes a look at the strange linguistic crime of blasphemy in 21st century Europe.


• At the NYR Daily, Nicole Rudick examines the early work of underground Montréal cartoonist Julie Doucet.


• Window on Eurasia shares a warning that growing pressures on land could lead to ethnic conflict in the North Caucasus.