[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy shares Hubble images of asteroid 6478 Gault, seemingly in the process of dissolving.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the experience of living in a body one knows from hard experience to be fallible.


• Gizmodo notes new evidence that environmental stresses pushed at least some Neanderthals to engage in cannibalism.


• Hornet Stories notes the 1967 raid by Los Angeles police against the Black Cat nightclub, a pre-Stonewall trigger of LGBTQ organization.


• Imageo notes the imperfect deal wrought by Colorado Basin states to minimize the pain felt by drought in that river basin.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the cinema of Claire Denis.


• Language Log reports on the work of linguist Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a man involved in language revival efforts in Australia after work in Israel with Hebrew.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders if the Iran-Contra scandal will be a precedent for the Mueller report, with the allegations being buried by studied inattention.


• Marginal Revolution makes a case for NIMBYism leading to street urination.


• Justin Petrone at North! looks at a theatrical performance of a modern Estonian literary classic, and what it says about gender and national identity.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw makes the case for a treaty with Australian Aborigines, to try to settle settler-indigenous relations in Australia.


• John Quiggin looks at the factors leading to the extinction of coal as an energy source in the United Kingdom.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that we are not yet up to the point of being able to detect exomoons of Earth-like planets comparable to our Moon.


• Window on Eurasia notes the occasion of the last singer in the Ket language.


• Arnold Zwicky shares some cartoon humour, around thought balloons.