[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers what it means to live a kintsugi life.


• The Crux looks at the difficulties facing the researches who seek to understand the undeciphered script of the Indus Valley Civilization.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog notes the importance, and relevance, of studying sociological research methods.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing revives from the archives an old article from the 1980s looking at the impact of VCRs on their users.


• JSTOR Daily examines the new challenges facing makeup artists in the early Technicolor era of Hollywood in the 1930s.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the economic motives for well-off Chinese households to engage in the footbinding of young women.


• Gabrielle Bellot writes at the NYR Daily about a remarkable overlooked work by James Baldwin, the children's book Little Man, Little Man illustrated by Yoran Cazac.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes that the Opportunity rover on Mars is still silent, though there is still hope for the robot that could.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a map examining the distribution of speakers of English in the Russian Federation circa 2010.


• Drew Rowsome reviews a collection of the comic horror short stories of Isaac Thorne.


• Speed River Journal's Van Waffle meditates on lichen and dogs in the park.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on NGC 1052-DF2, a diffuse galaxy that seems to have been formed in the aftermath of a sort of conflict with dark matter.


• The top post of 2018 at Strange Company was this post looking at the mysterious 1911 murder in Indianapolis of German-born doctor Helen Knabe.


• John Scalzi at Whatever notes, in response to a recent survey suggesting authors have very low incomes, that most authors have never earned that much.


• Window on Eurasia takes a look, in the wake of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, controversy in Belarus over a possible similar move there.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the sheer complexity of the potential options for the United Kingdom with Brexit makes simple strategies--and a simple referendum question--exceptionally difficult.


• Arnold Zwicky has an enjoyable rumination starting from a Owen Smith parody of the Edward Hopper painting Nighthawk on the cover of The New Yorker.