[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy notes how the occultation of distant stars by nearby asteroids can help astronomers determine stars' size.


• D-Brief notes the remarkable achievements of some scientists in reviving the brains of pigs hours after their death.


• Dangerous Minds takes a look at how David Bowie got involved in The Man Who Fell To Earth.


• Dead Things looks at the recent identification of the late Cretaceous dinosaur Gobihadros.


• Bruce Dorminey notes that astronomers have determined an interstellar meteorite likely hit the Earth in 2014.


• Gizmodo reports on a very dim L-dwarf star 250 light-years away, ULAS J224940.13−011236.9, that experienced a massive flare. How did it do it?


• Hornet Stories shares some vintage photos of same-sex couples from generations ago being physically affectionate.


• At The Island Review, Nancy Forde writes about motherhood and her experience on Greenland, in the coastal community of Ilulissat.


• JSTOR Daily notes how Paris' Notre-Dame has always been in a process of recreation.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, and Money notes the continuing oppression of workers in Bangladesh.


• The LRB Blog notes the flaws in the defense, and in the political thinking, of Julian Assange. (Transparency is not enough.)


• The NYR Daily reports on how photographer Claudia Andujar has regarded the Yanomami as they face existential challenges.


• The Planetary Society Blog traces the crash of Beresheet on the Moon to a software conflict.


• Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy warns against the idea of inevitable moral progress.


• Window on Eurasia notes the desires of some Russian conservatives to see Russia included in a European Union dominated by neo-traditionalists.