[BLOG] Some Sunday links

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• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait considers the question of where, exactly, the dwarf galaxy Segue-1 came from.


• Centauri Dreams considers the import of sodium chloride for the water oceans of Europa, and for what they might hold.


• D-Brief wonders if dark matter punched a holy in the Milky Way Galaxy.


• JSTOR Daily warns that the increasing number of satellites in orbit of Earth might hinder our appreciation of the night sky.


• The LRB Blog looks at the complications of democracy and politics in Mauritania.


• Marginal Revolution wonders about the nature of an apparently very decentralized city of Haifa.


• Corey S. Powell at Out There notes that, while our knowledge of the Big Bang is certainly imperfect, the odds of it being wrong are quite, quite low.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the Hayabusa 2 exploration of asteroid Ryugu.


• Vintage Space examines how Apollo astronauts successfully navigated their way to the Moon.


• Window on Eurasia looks at press discussion in Russia around the decriminalization of soft drugs like marijuana.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at a comic depicting a "mememobile."