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  • Centauri Dreams considers what would be needed, and what would be the use, of a SETI search of Earth's co-orbitals.

  • John Quiggin at Crooked Timber considers the idea of nature potentially having legal rights in the context of corporations, likewise, actually having such.

  • D-Brief reports that the Mars 2020 probe will bring with it a mini-probe built around a helicopter.

  • io9 notes that writer Jonathan Hickman will be coming back to Marvel to write two new X-Men books this summer.

  • Joe. My. God. notes that a Trump supporter recently arrested for a Mafia slaying had earlier tried to conduct citizen's arrests of prominent Democrats.

  • Language Hat takes a look at obscenities in Russian that do not quite make it over to English.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money reacts to the massive anti-Brexit protests in the United Kingdom this past weekend.

  • Marginal Revolution discusses just how bad a Brexit is likely to be, or not.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why LIGO and like instruments have not detected gravitational wave sources within our galaxy. (Briefly, they aren't good enough yet to pick up faint sources.)

  • The Volokh Conspiracy notes that not much new has come from the release of the Mueller investigation summary.

  • Arnold Zwicky builds from a report of a new LGBTQ consumer advocate from Florida, Nik Harris.

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