[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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• Architectuul notes a bike tour of Bauhaus architecture in Berlin.


• Bad Astronomy Phil Plait notes the discovery of Beta Pictoris c, a second super-Jovian planet in that young system.


• Centauri Dreams notes that the NASA Europa Clipper is moving ahead.


• Crooked Timber shares a gorgeous night photo of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice.


• The Crux notes what we are learning about the Denisovans.


• D-Brief notes that Neanderthals were prone to swimmer's ear.


• Dangerous Minds looks at some of the pop culture likes of Karl Marx.


• Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage looks at the exoplanets of GJ 1061.


• Earther notes how Icelanders mourned the loss of a glacier in a ceremony.


• Whitney Kimball at Gizmodo looks at what the mass data loss of more than a decade's worth of music at Myspace means for our Internet era.


• Imageo shares photos of spiraling cloud formations photographed at night from space.


• Ian Humberstone at The Island Review writes about his witnessing of the bonxies, birds of the Shetlands.


• Joe. My. God. notes a report suggesting Trump joked about swapping Greenland for Puerto Rico.


• JSTOR Daily notes how the rhythmic dancing of the Shakers in 18th century America marked that sect as different.


• Language Hat considers the humour of some philosophers.


• Language Log notes the oblique commentaries of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing on his city-state's protests.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the idiocy of the Trump fetish for Greenland.


• The Map Room Blog notes how astronomers have mapped the Local Void, of deep intergalactic space.


• Marginal Revolution wonders if the future of Venice might be found in its becoming a Chinese portal into Europe.


• Sean Marshall notes how the Ford government is undermining conservation in Ontario.


• The NYR Daily shares some of the New York City photography of Phil Penman.


• Starts With A Bang's notes the immense storms of Saturn.


• Strange Company shares a weekend collection of links.


• Window on Eurasia looks at how Belarus plans on reorganizing its internal structures to try to minimize rural depopulation.


• Nick Rowe at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative talks about monetary policy in metaphors.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at some penguins from around the world.