[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Centauri Dreams notes the astounding precision of the new Habitable Planet Finder telescope.


• D-Brief notes that the lack of small craters on Pluto and Charon suggests there are not many small bodies in the Kuiper Belt.


• Far Outliers notes the many and widely varying transliterations of Bengali to English.


• JSTOR Daily notes the extent to which border walls represent, ultimately, a failure of politics.


• Language Log examines the emergence of the Germanic languages in the depths of prehistory.


• Anna Aslanyan at the LRB Blog considers the eternal search for a universal language.


• Noah Smith shareshis Alternative Green New Deal Plan at his blog, one that depends more on technology and market forces than the original.


• Mitchell Abidor at the NYR Daily writes about the incisive leftism of journalist Victor Sorge.


• Out There notes the reality that the worlds of our solar system, and almost certainly other systems, are united by a constant stream of incoming rocks.


• At the Planetary Society Blog, Emily Lakdawalla examines the data transmitted back by OSIRIS-REx from that probe's Earth flyby.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines cosmic conditions at the time the solar system formed 4.56 billion or so years ago.


• Towleroad notes the censorship of many explicitly gay scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody in its Chinese release.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the many ways in which the social norms of North Caucasian men are converging with those of the average Russian.


• On St. David's Day, Arnold Zwicky pays tribute to the daffodil and to the Welsh.