[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares images of Jupiter, imaged in infrared by ALMA.


• Centauri Dreams looks at ocean upwelling on one class of super-habitable exoplanet.


• D-Brief looks at how the Komodo dragon survived the threat of extinction.


• Far Outliers reports on a mid-19th century slave raid in the Sahel.


• Gizmodo notes that the secret US Air Force spaceplane, the X-37B, has spent two years in orbit. (Doing what?)


• JSTOR Daily looks at the economic underpinnings of medieval convents.


• Dave Brockington writes at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the continuing meltdown of the British political system in the era of Brexit, perhaps even of British democracy.


• The LRB Blog looks at the impact of Brexit on the Common Travel Area.


• Marginal Revolution reports on how Poland has tried to deter emigration by removing income taxes on young workers.


• Carole Naggar writes at the NYR Daily about the photography of women photographers working for LIFE, sharing examples of their work.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why time has to be a dimension of the universe, alongside the three of space.


• Frank Jacobs of Strange Maps shares NASA images of the forest fires of Amazonia.


• Window on Eurasia notes that many Russophones of Ukraine are actually strongly opposed to Russia, contrary Russian stereotypes of language determining politics.