[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at an evocative corner of the Pelican Nebula.


• Centauri Dreams considers if a supernova might have kickstarted hominid evolution by triggering wildfires.


• D-Brief looks at how scientists examined binary asteroid 1999 KW4 during its flyby on May 25th.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the development of the radical abolitionism of William Blake.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at centrism as not neutrality but rather as an ideology of its own.


• Marginal Revolution suggests that legal emigration is more common from right-wing dictatorships than from left-wing ones. Is this actually the case?


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that an image passed off as a hole in the universe a billion light-years wide is actually a photo of nebula Barnard 68.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Ukraine, rather than trying to position itself as a bridge between West and East, should simply try to join the West without equivocations.


• Arnold Zwicky takes a Zippy cartoon and moves on to explore the wider world from it.