[BLOG] Some Sunday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at galaxies NGC 6769 and 6770, a pair that may well collide in the foreseeable future.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of seizing the days, of knowing that somedays will run out sooner or later.


• Centauri Dreams notes the mysterious dusty ring surrounding the old white dwarf LSPM J0207+3331.


• Corey Robin at Crooked Timber writes about the potential tensions arising for scholars active in journalism, as their work risks compromise by the conflicting time scales of academia and journalism.


• The Crux notes the growing evidence for the suggestion that many Neanderthal populations were inbred. Did this contribute to their extinction?


• D-Brief notes the discovery in Utah of a fossil of a small tyrannosaur species 95 million years old, revealing much about tyrannosaurs' movement into North America.


• Far Outliers shares the account of a visitor to Calcutta in the mid-1990s who found the city unchanged, unlike rivals like Delhi and Mumbai.


• Gizmodo notes that the Hayabusa2 probe successfully touched down on asteroid Ryugu.


• Hornet Stories is among the sites to pick up on the death of Jackie Shane, a trans R&B musician who became a star in the Toronto of the 1960s.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the remarkable paper nautilus, a cephalopod of the high seas.


• Language Hat reports that a Russian man fluent in Irish has been appointed a Irish language officer in a Gaeltacht in Kerry.


• Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the complex possibilities surrounding the new Turkish aircraft carrier, the Anadolu.


• Marginal Revolution notes the emergence of real estate speculation driven by foreign investors in a recovering Greece.


• The NYR Daily shares part of an introduction by Johanna Fateman to a new book examining the continuing importance of Andrea Dworkin.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why WIMPs, weakly interacting massive particles, can no longer be used to explain dark matter.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that, while Ukraine is getting used to its definitive separation from Russia, Russia is still in denial.


• Arnold Zwicky examines the background behind a marvelous parody ad page by Mary Trainor.