[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait explains the potential discovery of an ancient rock from Earth among the Moon rocks collected by Apollo.


• Centauri Dreams looks at what will be coming next from the New Horizons probe after its Ultima Thule flyby.


• The Crux looks at the genetic library of threatened animals preserved cryogenically in a San Diego zoo.


• Far Outliers looks at the drastic, even catastrophic, population changes of Sichuan over the past centuries.


• Language Hat looks at translations made in the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem.


• Language Log tries to translate a possibly Indo-European sentence preserved in an ancient Chinese text.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the complexity of the crisis in Venezuela.


• The LRB Blog looks at the Mexican-American border in this era of crisis.


• Marginal Revolution notes a spike in unsolved shootings in Baltimore following protests against police racism.


• Noah Smith reviews the new Tyler Cowen book, Stubborn Attachments.


• Adam Shatz at the NYR Daily reviews what sounds like a fantastic album of anti-colonial Francophone music inspired by Frantz Fanon and assembled by French rapper Rocé.


• The Planetary Society Blog takes a look what is next for China as it continues its program to explore the Moon.


• Roads and Kingdoms interviews Monique Jaques about her new photo book looking at the lives of girls growing up in Gaza.


• Rocky Planets takes a look at how rocks can form political boundaries.


• Drew Rowsome interviews choreographer Christopher House about his career and the next shows at the Toronto Dance Theatre.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel takes a look at the seeming featurelessness of Uranus.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at a controversial swap of land proposed between Serbia and Kosovo.


• Window on Eurasia notes the controversial possibility of China contracting Russia to divert Siberian rivers as a water supply.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at the origins of Uri and Avi, a photo of apparently showing two men, one Palestinian and one Israeli, kissing.