[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the evidence for the massive collision that left exoplanet Kepler 107c an astoundingly dense body.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly tells her readers the secrets of the success of her relationship with her husband, Jose.


• Centauri Dreams notes what the New Horizons probe has found out, of Ultima Thule and of Pluto, by looking back.


• The Crux shares the obituaries of scientists from NASA for the Opportunity rover.


• D-Brief reports that NASA has declared the Opportunity rover's mission officially complete.


• Dead Things introduces its readers to Mnyamawamtuka, a titanosaur from Tanzania a hundred million years ago.


• Drew Ex Machina shares a stunning photo of Tropical Cyclone Gita, taken from the ISS in 2018.


• Far Outliers notes how the Indian Army helped save the British army's positions from collapse in the fall of 1914.


• Joe. My. God. notes a Christian group in the United States trying to encourage a boycott of supposedly leftist candy manufacturers like Hershey's.


• JSTOR Daily looks at why covenant marriage failed to become popular.


• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains the hatred for new Congressperson Ilham Omar.


• The Planetary Society Blog links to ten interesting podcasts relating to exploration, of Earth and of space.


• Drew Rowsome interviews Tobias Herzberg about Feygele, his show in the Rhubarb festival at Buddies in Bad Times.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at the evidence, presented by (among others) Geneviève von Petzinger, suggesting that forty thousand years ago cave artists around the world may have shared a common language of symbols.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that the policies of Putin are contributing to a growing sense of nationalism in Belarus.