[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams notes the discovery of rocky debris indicative of destroyed planets in orbit of the white dwarf SDSS J122859.93+104032.9, 400 light-years away.


• JSTOR Daily shows how the Columbine massacre led to a resurgence of evangelical Christianity in the US.


• Language Log notes an example of digraphia, two scripts, in use in Taiwan.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money identifies the presidential run of Howard Schultz in ways unflattering to him yet accurate.


• The LRB Blog takes a look at the current, unsettling, stage of artificial intelligence research.


• At the NYR Daily, Boyd Tonkin writes about an exhibition of the works of Van Gogh at the Tate Britain highlighting his ties with England and with his Europeanness.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the ultimate fate of the Earth, a cinder orbiting a black dwarf.


• Strange Company tells the strange, sad story of 19th century California writer Yda Hillis Addis.


• At Vintage Space, Amy Shira Teitel explains why the Apollo missions made use of a dangerous pure-oxygen environment.


• Window on Eurasia notes how, 41 years ago, protests in Georgia forced the Soviet Union to let the Georgian republic keep Georgian as its official language.


• Arnold Zwicky starts with peeps and goes on to look at dragons.