[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Buzz celebrates Esi Edugyan's winning of the Giller Prize for the second time, for her amazing novel Washington Black.


• Centauri Dreams notes the unusual rings of outer-system body Chariklo.


• The Crux looks at the long history of unsuccessful planet-hunting at Barnard's Star, concentrating on the disproved mid-20th century work of Peter Van De Kamp.


• D-Brief notes evidence that Mars knew catastrophic floods that radically reshaped its surface.


• Bruce Dorminey visits and explores Korea's ancient Cheomseongdae Observatory.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the death of long-time contributor Peter Kaufman.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the things--quiet, even--that modernity can undermine before transforming into a commodity.


• Imageo notes that global warming has continued this American Thanksgiving.


• Joe. My. God. notes the sour grapes of the Family Research Council at the success of the moving film about "gay conversion therapy", Boy Erased.


• JSTOR Daily links to a paper considering if the zeitgeist of the world is into major monuments.


• Language Log considers a news report of "arsehole" geese in Australia. As a Canadian, all I can say is that geese are birds that know they are dinosaurs.


• The LRB Blog reports from the scene of the recent unrecognized elections in the city of Donetsk, run by a pro-Russian regime.


• The Map Room Blog reports on how Atlas Obscura is exhibiting some amazing maps produced in Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting how black teachers can help boost achievements among black students.


• The New APPS Blog looks at how the political economy of our time combines with social media to atomize and fragment society.


• Nicholas Lezard at the NYR Daily talks about his experience of anti-Semitism, as a non-Jew, in the United Kingdom.


• Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog suggests families would do better to talk about space at Thanksgiving than about politics, and shares a list of subjects.


• Drew Rowsome talks about the frustrations and the entertainment involved with Bohemian Rhapsody.


• Window on Eurasia notes that fifty thousand ethnic Kyrgyz are being held in the Xinjiang camps of China.


• Arnold Zwicky shares some Thanksgiving holiday cartoons by Roz Chast.