[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Larry Claes at Centauri Dreams considers the issues of the alien featuring in the title of the classic The Thing, facing human persecution.


• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber starts a debate about past blogging and conventional wisdom.


• The Crux reports on a mass rescue of orphaned flamingo chicks in South Africa.


• D-Brief notes new evidence that asteroids provided perhaps half of the Earth's current supply of water.


• Cody Delistraty looks at how the far-right in Germany is appropriating artworks to support its view of history.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that China may be hoping to build a base at the Moon's south pole by 2029.


• Far Outliers reports on the 1865 collapse of the Confederacy.


• Gizmodo reports on how astronomers have identified the approximate location of a kilonova that seeded the nascent solar system with heavy elements.


• Joe. My. God. shares the news from yet another study demonstrating that HIV cannot be transmitted by HIV-undetectable people. U=U.


• JSTOR Daily notes how, via Herb Caen, the Beat Generation became known as Beatniks.


• Language Hat shares and comments upon a passage from Dostoevsky noting how an obscenity can be stretched out into an entire conversation.


• Language Log considers a peculiarity of the Beijing dialect.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how statehood has been used to game the American political system.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that countries with greater levels of gender inequality are more likely to produce female chess grandmasters.


• Justin Petrone at North!, considering the history of writers in Estonia, considers what the mission of the writer should be.


• The NYR Daily examines the black people once miners in the Kentucky town of Lynch, remembering and sharing their experiences.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw considers what he has learned from a recent research and writing contract.


• Jason C. Davis at the Planetary Society Blog reports in greater detail on the crater Hayabusa 2 made in asteroid Ryugu.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how the Event Horizon Telescope acts like a mirror.


• Strange Company shares an impressively diverse collection of links.


• Towleroad talks with writer Tim Murphy about his new novel, Correspondents.


• Window on Eurasia considers future directions for Ukrainian language policy.


• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the artistic riches horded by the Nazis in the Bavarian castle of Neuschwanstein.