[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Matt Thompson at anthro{dendum} writes about the complex, often anthropological, satire in the comics of Charles Addams.


• Architectuul looks at the photography of Roberto Conte.


• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes a new computer model suggesting a supernova can be triggered by throwing a white dwarf into close orbit of a black hole.


• D-Brief notes how ammonia on the surface of Pluto hints at the existence of a subsurface ocean.


• Bruce Dorminey notes how the bombardment of Earth by debris from a nearby supernova might have prompted early hominids to become bipedal.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that NASA has awarded its first contract for its plans in lunar space.


• Far Outliers notes the reactions, within and without the Soviet Union, to the 1991 Soviet coup attempt.


• Matt Novak at Gizmodo's Paleofuture notes how, in 1995, Terry Pratchett predicted the rise of online Nazis.


• io9 notes the impending physical release this summer of DVDs of the Deep Space Nine documentary What We Left Behind.


• JSTOR Daily suggests some ways to start gardening in your apartment.


• Victor Mair at Language Log claims that learning Literary Chinese is a uniquely difficult experience. Thoughts?


• The NYR Daily features a wide-ranging interview with EU official Michel Barnier focused particularly, but not exclusively, on Brexit.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes that an Internet vote has produced a majority in favour of naming outer system body 2007 OR10 Gonggang.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers the possibility that foreign investors in Mexico might be at risk, at least feel themselves at risk, from the government of AMLO.


• The Signal looks at how the Library of Congress archives spreadsheets.


• Van Waffle at the Speed River Journal looks at magenta spreen, a colourful green that he grows in his garden.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how we on Earth are carelessly wasting irreplaceable helium.


• Window on Eurasia refers to reports claiming that a third of the population of Turkmenistan has fled that Central Asian state. Could this be accurate?