[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy shares a photo taken by the H-ATLAS satellite of deep space, a sea of pale dusty dots each one a galaxy.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares, in photos and in prose, 11 views of New York City. (What a fantastic metropolis!)


• Centauri Dreams hosts an essay from Alex Tolley suggesting that most life in the universe is lithophilic, living in the stable warm interiors of planets.


• Cody Delistraty links to an essay of his looking at the tensions, creative and personal, between Renoir father and son.


• Gizmodo links to a paper suggesting the mysterious ASASSN-14li event can be explained by a star falling into a supermassive galactic black hole, the analysis suggesting the black hole was rotating at half the speed of light.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the mysterious dancing plagues of medieval Europe.


• The LRB Blog looks at casual anti-Semitism in British sports.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that the legacies of Confucian state-building in China may have depressed long-term economic growth in particularly Confucian areas.


• The Planetary Society Blog reports on the success of the Chang'e-4 probe, complete with photos and videos sent from the far side of the Moon.


• Roads to Kingdoms shares the photography of a changing Vietnam by Simone Sapienza.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the ongoing Toronto comedy show Unsafe Space, and enjoys it.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the achievements of the TESS planet-hunting satellites, looking for nearby planets, emphasizing its achievements in the Pi Mensae system.


• Window on Eurasia considers a fascinating alternate history. Could Beria, had he survived Stalin, have overseen a radical liberalization of the Soviet Union in the early Cold War?