[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• Centauri Dreams reports on how dataset mining of K2 data revealed 18 more Earth-sized planets.


• Crooked Timber speculates on how Clarence Thomas might rule on abortion given his public rulings.


• D-Brief observes that some corals in Hawaii appear to thrive in acidic waters. Is there hope yet for coral reefs?


• Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about how sociology and history overlap, in their subjects and in their methods.


• Far Outliers examines how the last remnants of Soviet power faded quickly around the world in 1991.


• Gizmodo looks at how an image of a rare albino panda has just been captured.


• Joe. My. God. notes how Christian fundamentalists want to make the east of Washington State into a 51st state run by Biblical law.


• JSTOR Daily notes how trees can minimize algae blooms in nearby water systems.


• Victor Mair at Language Log takes issue with problematic pop psychology regarding bilingualism in Singapore.


• Lawyers, Guns, and Money takes issue with trying to minimize court decisions like (for instance) a hypothetical overthrow of Miranda v. Arizona. (Roe v. Wade is what they are concerned with.)


• The NYR Daily looks at the short storied life of avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Rubin.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why we can never learn everything about our universe.


• Towleroad notes that downloads of the relationship app Hinge have surged after Pete Buttigieg said he met his now-husband there.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Ukraine is seeking to have the Kerch Strait separating Crimea from adjacent Russia declared an international body of water.


• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at what famed gay writer John Rechy is doing these days.