[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the remarkable amount of information produced by a study of globular clusters in the Coma cluster of galaxies.


• Crooked Timber notes the decision of British prosecutors to charge the Stansted 15, people who prevented a flight from taking off with reject asylum claimants, with terrorism-related offenses.


• The Crux notes some of the remarkable evolutionary tricks that let different insects develop ears and the sense of hearing.


• D-Brief notes that the Voyager 2 probe has exited the heliosphere, arguably leaving the solar system.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing notes how digital media accentuate the modern world's fragmentation and exhaustion of time.


• Information is Beautiful shares the results of this year's Information is Beauty awards, sharing all sorts of impressive data visualization products including the winner.


• JSTOR Daily notes some lessons about monks' organization of time; productivity improvements, with better technology, were used not to increase production but rather to free up time for other uses.


• Language Hat links to a BBC article noting the potential that machine translation offers for the understanding of Sumerian cuneiform tablets, most of which are untranslated.


• Rose Jacobs at Lingua Franca announces that, after years of operation, this blog will be closed before the end of the month.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Jason Davis announces that the OSIRIS-REx probe has detected water on asteroid 101955 Bennu.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes the death of his Canadian relative, the anthropologist Cyril Belshaw.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why we have not yet found Earth analog planets.


• Window on Eurasia notes how the leadership of Chechnya has been criticizing neighbouring Dagestan for its treatment of Chechens there.