[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• D-Brief notes evidence that human growth hormone harvested from dead people can transfer Alzheimer's disease to recipients.


• Far Outliers reports on how Choshu fought off the bakufu in 1866.


• Gizmodo reports the discovery of a distant Kuiper belt object, orbiting at 120 AU, provisionally named "Farout."


• JSTOR Daily notes the links between successful start-ups and social privilege.


• The LRB Blog notes the restrictions placed on travel to the Andaman and Nicobar islands, and on contact with the threatened indigenous peoples there.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution explains how he tries to understand cultural codes, with their major influence on economic dynamics.


• The NYR Daily looks at the contemporary nature art of Walton Ford.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the Jonathan Janz novella Witching House Theatre.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares astronomical photos of exoplanets which show how planets form.


• Yesterday, Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy noted at blog's celebration of the Roman holiday of Saturnalia.


• At Whatever, John Scalzi celebrates the excellent new animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, as does Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money.


• Window on Eurasia notes how the decision of the Russian government to move the capital of the Far Eastern federal district from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok will harm that first city but not do that much for the second.


• Arnold Zwicky considers the art of appearances, queer and otherwise.