[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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• Architectuul looks at some architecturally innovative pools.


• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait looks at Wolf 359, a star made famous in Star Trek for the Starfleet battle there against the Borg but also a noteworthy red dwarf star in its own right.


• Centauri Dreams looks at how the NASA Deep Space Atomic Clock will play a vital role in interplanetary navigation.


• The Crux considers the "drunken monkey" thesis, the idea that drinking alcohol might have been an evolutionary asset for early hominids.


• D-Brief reports on what may be the next step for genetic engineering beyond CRISPR.


• Bruce Dorminey looks at how artificial intelligence may play a key role in searching for threat asteroids.


• The Island Review shares some poetry from Roseanne Watt, inspired by the Shetlands and using its dialect.


• Livia Gershon writes at JSTOR Daily about how YouTube, by promising to make work fun, actually also makes fun work in psychologically problematic ways.


• Marginal Revolution notes how the relatively small Taiwan has become a financial superpower.


• Janine di Giovanni at the NYR Daily looks back at the 2000 intervention in Sierra Leone. Why did it work?


• Jamais Cascio at Open the Future looks back at a 2004 futurological exercise, the rather accurate Participatory Panopticon. What did he anticipate correctly? How? What does it suggest for us now to our world?


• The Planetary Society Blog notes that LightSail 2 will launch before the end of June.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how the discovery of gas between galaxies helps solve a dark matter question.


• Strange Company shares a broad collection of links.


• Window on Eurasia makes the obvious observation that the West prefers a North Caucasus controlled by Russia to one controlled by Islamists.


• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at American diner culture, including American Chinese food.