[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Architectuul looks at the modernist works of Spanish Antonio Lamela, building after the Second World War under Franco.


• Centauri Dreams considers the possibility of life-supporting environments on Barnard's Star b, a frozen super-Earth.


• The Crux takes a look at how, and when, human beings and their ancestors stopped being as furry as other primates.


• D-Brief notes the Russian startup that wants to put advertisements in Earth orbit.


• Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the Soyuz 4 and 5 missions, the first missions to see two crewed craft link up in space.


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• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing notes the ironies of housing a state-of-the-art supercomputers in the deconsecrated Torre Girona Chapel in Barcelona.


• Gizmodo notes a new study claiming that the rings of Saturn may be less than a hundred million years old, product of some catastrophic obliteration of an ice moon perhaps.


• Joe. My. God. notes the death of Pulitzer-winning lesbian poet Mary Oliver.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the rising prominence of hoarding as a psychological disorder.


• Language Hat shares a manuscript more than a hundred pages long, reporting on terms relating to sea ice used in the Inupiaq language spoken by the Alaska community of Kifigin, or Wales.


• Language Log examines the etymology of "slave" and "Slav". (Apparently "ciao" is also linked to these words.)


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that Buzzfeed was right to claim that Trump ordered his lawyer to lie to Congress about the Moscow Trump Tower project.


• Marginal Revolution notes a serious proposal in the Indian state of Sikkim to set up a guaranteed minimum income project.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps links to a map showing visitations of the Virgin Mary worldwide, both recognized and unrecognized by the Vatican.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the continuing controversy over the identity of AT2018cow.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Russians have more to fear from a Sino-Russian alliance than Americans, on account of the possibility of a Chinese takeover of Russia enabled by this alliance.