[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• D-Brief notes that, in the United States, obesity rates are rising most quickly in rural populations.


• Bruce Dorminey notes that the NASA plan to put people on the Moon by 2024 will draw heavily on commercial space.


• Joe. My. God. notes that San Francisco has banned its police from using facial recognition technology.


• JSTOR Daily examines the myths of the brief life of Thomas Chatterton, the 18th century poet who became an icon to the Romantics.


• Language Log considers reconstructions of the Chinese name of the ancient Silk Road city of Loulan.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests that criminalizing people who give border migrants a car ride indicates a particular harshness to US immigration policy.


• The NYR Daily interviews Chinese professor and critic Che Hongguo, founder of the Zhiwuzhi reading room movement.


• Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog is not very impressed with the funding provisions for the NASA Artemis Moon program.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why simple differences in chemical composition, starting with an excess of sulfur relative to carbon on Mars, explain why Mars now is a barren world.


• Nick Rowe at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative cautions people not to mistake accounting identities for realities.