[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how variable gravity is on irregular asteroid Bennu.


• Bruce Dorminey reports on how the European Southern Observatory has charted the Magellanic Clouds in unprecedented detail.


• The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links looking at the Precambrian Earth.


• Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina reports on the late 1950s race to send probes to the Moon.


• Gizmodo shares some stunning astronomy photos.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the saltwater roads, the routes that slaves in Florida used to escape to the free Bahamas.


• Language Log looks at some examples of bad English from Japan. How did they come about?


• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money rejects the idea of honouring people like Condoleezza Rice.


• Marginal Revolution considers the idea of free will in light of neurology.


• Corey S Powell at Out There interviews James Lovelock on his new book Novacene, in which Lovelock imagines the future world and Gaia taken over by AI.


• Window on Eurasia notes the water shortages faced by downstream countries in Central Asia.