[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber takes a look at "abusive legalism".


• D-Brief looks at unusual Type 1A supernova ASASSN-18bt, which exhibited an odd early burst of light.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on a Dutch government report that Russia has developed a new cruise missile in violation of the INF treaty.


• Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the latest thought on habitable moons.


• Far Outliers notes how Korean, Taiwanese, and Okinawan prisoners in American prisoner of war camps for Imperial Japanese soldiers distinguished themselves (or not) from their ethnic Japanese counterparts.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the metaphor of the cave in the digital era. Do data scientists truly understand the online world?


• JSTOR Daily looks at the different estimates as to the size of the legal cannabis market in Canada.


• Language Log links to a podcast that takes a look at the Philadelphia dialect of English.


• Out There makes the argument that Cubesats are perfectly suited to conducting surveys of asteroids.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the one-man show Obaaberima, performed by Tawiah Ben M'Carthy, currently playing at Buddies in Bad Times.


• Window on Eurasia notes a demographer's argument that any future population growth in Russia will need to be driven by immigration.