[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Architectuul shares photos from a bike tour of Berlin.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on new evidence that exocomets are raining on star Beta Pictoris.


• Larry Klaes at Centauri Dreams reviews the two late 1970s SF films Alien and Star Trek I, products of the same era.


• D-Brief reports on Hubble studies of the star clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud.


• Bruce Dorminey shares Gemini telescope images of interstellar comet C/2019 Q4 (Borisov).


• The Dragon's Tales shares video of Space X's Starhopper test flight.


• Far Outliers notes the import of the 13th century Norman king of England calling himself Edward after an Anglo-Saxon king.


• Gizmodo notes that not only can rats learn to play hide and seek, they seem to enjoy it.


• io9 notes the fantastic high camp of Mister Sinister in the new Jonathan Hickman X-Men run, borrowing a note from Kieron Gillen's portrayal of the character.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Guiliani's soon-to-be ex-wife says he has descended from 911 hero to a liar.


• Language Log looks at the recent ridiculous suggestion that English, among other languages, descends from Chinese.


• The LRB Blog looks at the brief history of commemorating the V2 attacks on London.


• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the practice in Saskatchewan of sterilizing First Nations women against their consent.


• Marginal Revolution suggests that farmers in Brazil might be getting a partly unfair treatment. (Partly.)


• The Planetary Society Blog explains why C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) matters.


• Window on Eurasia notes that, for the first time, immigrants from Turkmenistan in Belarus outnumber immigrants from Ukraine.