[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• Centauri Dreams notes new findings suggesting that low metallicity in stars is linked to the formation of multi-planet systems, including systems with multiple small planets perhaps not unlike Earth.


• D-Brief notes that the potentially detectable S1 dark matter stream is heading past the Earth.


• Far Outliers reports on a visit of samurai to San Francisco in 1860.


• JSTOR Daily notes the wollemi pine of Australia, an ancient tree around in the era of the (non-avian) dinosaurs.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes yet another instance of the decidedly unimpressive leadership of Donald Trump in office.


• Lingua Franca looks at the emergence of an interesting linguistic tic in English, "regular" as in "like a regular William Safire".


• Marginal Revolution looks at how government propaganda in Rwanda aimed to minimize ethnic tensions and the salience of ethnic identity seems to have actually worked.


• The NYR Daily looks how at the English nationalism that has inspired Brexit is indifferent to the loss of Northern Ireland.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shows how crop data from the United States and Europe can be transformed into abstract art.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia is responding to the Ecumenical Patriarchate's recognition of a Ukrainian church by trying to organize a Russian church in its territory of Turkey.


• Arnold Zwicky explores the word "teknonymy", "the practice of referring to parents by the names of their children".