[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy identifies the most distant globular cluster known to exist around the Milky Way Galaxy, PSO J174.0675-10.8774 some 470 thousand light-years away.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the strange ring of the Kuiper Belt dwarf planet Haumea.


• Crooked Timber looks at an ill-constructed biography of Eric Hobsbawm.


• D-Brief notes an experiment that proves antimatter obeys the same laws of quantum mechanics as regular matter, at least insofar as the double-slit experiment is concerned.


• Earther notes that life in Antarctica depends critically on the presence of penguin feces.


• Imageo looks at awesome satellite imagery of spring storms in North America.


• The Island Review interviews Irene de la Torre, a translator born on the Spanish island of Mallorca, about her experiences and thoughts on her insular experiences.


• Joe. My. God. notes a new deal between Gilead Pharmaceuticals and the American government to make low-cost PrEP available to two hundred thousand people.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the many ways in which The Great Gatsby reflects the norms of the Jazz Age.


• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money is rightly critical of the Sam Harris suggestion that white supremacism is not an ideology of special concern, being only a fringe belief.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution solicits questions for an upcoming interview with demographer of religion Eric Kaufmann.


• Russell Darnley at Maximos62 shares cute video of otters frolicking on the Singapore River.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel asks when the universe became transparent to light.


• Arnold Zwicky shares photos of his blooming flower gardens.