[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams considers the recent study of near-Earth asteroid 1999 KW4, looking at it from the perspective of defending the Earth and building a civilization in space.


• Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber continues a debate on universal basic income.


• The Dragon's Tales considers if India does need its own military space force.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how foster care in the United States (Canada, too, I'd add) was also synonymous with sending children off as unpaid farm labourers.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a proposal, linking immigration to high-income countries to the idea of immigration as reparation for colonialism.


• The LRB Blog considers the ever-growing presence of the dead on networks like Facebook.


• Muhammad Idrees Ahmad at the NYR Daily looks at how Bellingcat and other online agencies have transformed investigative journalism.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a speech by the head of the Bank of Japan talking about the interactions of demographic change and economic growth.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the mystery behind the great mass of early black hole J1342+0928.


• Strange Company looks at the unsolved Christmas 1928 disappearance of young Melvin Horst from Orrville, Ohio. What happened?


• Window on Eurasia notes that Uzbekistan is moving the Latin script for Uzbek into closer conformity with its Turkish model.