[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• D-Brief considers the possibility that human food when eaten by bears, by shortening their hibernation periods, might contribute to their premature aging.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the political power of sports and of music.


• Far Outliers notes the rising bourgeoisie of Calcutta in the 1990s.


• Steve Roby at The Fifteenth makes the case for Discovery as worthy of being considered Star Trek, not least because it is doing something new.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing notes how our tendency to track our lives through data can become dystopian.


• JSTOR Daily notes that Illinois is starting to become home to resident populations of bald eagles.


• Language Log takes a look at Ubykh.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a Trumpist Canadian border guard.


• The New APPS Blog notes how helicopter parenting is linked to rising levels of inequality.


• The NYR Daily considers Jasper Johns.


• At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane considers the rhythms and cycles of life generally and of being a writer specifically.


• Otto Pohl looks at how people from the different German communities of southeast Europe were, at the end of the Second World War, taken to the Soviet Union as forced labourers.


• Steve Maynard writes at Spacing, in the aftermath of the death of Jackie Shane, about the erasure and recovery of non-white queer history in Toronto.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains what would happen if someone fell into a blackhole.


• Window on Eurasia notes that the number of immigrants to Russia are falling, with Ukrainians diminishing particularly in number while Central Asian numbers remain more resistant to the trend.


• Arnold Zwicky notes the telling omission of sexual orientation as a protected category re: hate crimes.