[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait reports on the fragility of asteroid Ryugu.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the JUICE probe, planned to explore the three icy moons of Jupiter.


• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber reports on the fact that Jimmy Carter was warned in the 1970s about the possibility of global warming.


• D-Brief notes that the Earth might not be the best world for life, that watery worlds with dense atmospheres and long days might be better.


• Jessica Poling at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about the construction of gender.


• Far Outliers looks at the Nigerian city of Agadez, at one point a sort of port city of the Sahel.


• Gizmodo asks a variety of experts their opinion on which species is likely to be next in developing our sort of intelligence. (Primates come up frequently, though I like the suggestion of bacterial colonies.)


• JSTOR Daily looks/a> at the genderless Quaker prophet Publick Universal Friend.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money comments on the interview of Amy Wax with The New Yorker.


• Marginal Revolution shares the enthusiasm of Tyler Cowen for Warsaw and Poland.


• Peter Pomerantsev writes at the NYR Daily about how the alt-right has taken to culture-jamming.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the exceptional power of cosmic rays.


• Window on Eurasia shares the lament of a Chuvash writer about the decline of her people's language.