[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Crux notes the discovery of a second impact crater in Greenland, hidden under the ice.


• D-Brief notes new evidence that ancient Celts did, in fact, decapitate their enemies and preserve their heads.


• Far Outliers notes how Pakhtun soldier Ayub Khan, in 1914-1915, engaged in some cunning espionage for the British Empire on the Western Front.


• Kashmir Hill at Gizmodo notes how cutting out the big five tech giants for one week--Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft--made it almost impossible for her to carry on her life.


• Hornet Stories notes that, unsurprisingly, LGBTQ couples are much more likely to have met online that their heterosexual counterparts.


• At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox imagines Elizabeth Warren giving a speech that touches sensitively and intelligently on her former beliefs in her Cherokee ancestry.


• Mónica Belevan at the Island Review writes, directly and allegorically, about the Galapagos Islands and her family and Darwin.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the economics of the romance novel.


• Language Hat notes the Mandombe script creating by the Kimbanguist movement in Congo.


• Harry Stopes at the LRB Blog notes the problem with Greater Manchester Police making homeless people a subject of concern.


• Ferguson activists, the NYR Daily notes, are being worn down by their protests.


• Roads and Kingdoms lists some things visitors to the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent should keep in mind.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes a case for supersymmetry being a failed prediction.


• Towleroad notes the near-complete exclusion of LGBTQ subjects and themes from schools ordered by Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro.


• Window on Eurasia notes a somewhat alarmist take on Central Asian immigrant neighbourhoods in Moscow.


• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the Kurds, their history, and his complicated sympathy for their concerns.