[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers the importance of complete rest.


• Citizen Science Salon looks at the contributions of ordinary people to Alzheimer's research.


• The Crux notes how recent planetary scientists acknowledge Venus to be an interestingly active world.


• D-Brief notes the carnivorous potential of pandas.


• Cody Delistraty considers a British Library exhibit about writing.


• Bruce Dorminey notes the possibility that, in red giant systems, life released from the interiors of thawed outer-system exomoons might produce detectable signatures in these worlds' atmospheres.


• The Dragon's Tales shares reports of some of the latest robot developments from around the world.


• Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog considers the concepts of gentrification and meritocracy.


• Gizmodo notes a running dinosaur robot that indicates one route by which some dinosaurs took to flight.


• At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox talks about bringing some principles of Wendell Berry to a town hall discussion in Sterling, Kansas.


• io9 notes that a reboot of Hellraiser is coming from David S. Goyer.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how museums engage in the deaccessioning of items in their collections.


• Language Log examines the Mongolian script on the renminbi bills of China.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how Volkswagen in the United States is making the situation of labour unions more difficult.


• Marginal Revolution notes the effective lack of property registration in the casbah of Algiers.


• The NYR Daily notes the Afrofuturism of artist Devan Shinoyama.


• Strange Company examines the trial of Jane Butterfield in the 1770s for murdering the man who kept her as a mistress with poison. Did she do it? What happened to her?


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes a controversial map identifying by name the presidents of the hundred companies most closely implicated in climate change.


• Window on Eurasia notes how the Russian Orthodox Church, retaliating against the Ecumenical Patriarchy for its recognition of Ukrainian independence, is moving into Asian territories outside of its purview.


• Arnold Zwicky starts a rumination by looking at the sportswear of the early 20th century world.