[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Adam Fish at anthro{dendum} compares different sorts of public bathing around the world, from Native America to Norden to Japan.


• Charlie Stross at Antipope is unimpressed by the person writing the script for our timeline.


• Architectuul reports on an architectural conference in Lisbon.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning photos of the eruption of the Raikoke volcano in Kamchatka.


• Centauri Dreams looks at what the Voyager spacecraft have returned about the edge of the solar system.


• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with the idea of bipartisanship if it means compromising on reality, allegorically.


• The Crux counts the number of people who have died in outer space.


• D-Brief notes that the Andromeda Galaxy has swallowed up multiple dwarf galaxies over the eons.


• Dead Things notes the identification of the first raptor species from Southeast Asia, Siamraptor suwati.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a paper tracing the origins of interstellar comet 2/Borisov from the general area of Kruger 60.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about the privilege allowing people access to affordable dental care.


• Gizmodo tells how Alexei Leonov survived the first spacewalk.


• io9 looks at the remarkable new status quo for the X-Men created by Jonathan Hickman.


• Selma Franssen at the Island Review writes about the threats facing the seabirds of the Shetlands.


• JSTOR Daily looks at what led Richard Nixon to make so many breaks from the American consensus on China in the Cold War.


• Language Log notes an undergraduate course at Yale using the Voynich Manuscript as an aid in the study of language.


• Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains her recent experience of the socialized health care system of Israel for Americans.


• The LRB Blog looks at how badly the Fukuyama prediction of an end to history has aged.


• The Map Room Blog shares a few maps of the new Ottawa LRT route.


• Marginal Revolution notes a paper establishing a link between Chinese industries undermining their counterparts in Mexico and Mexican social ills including crime.


• Sean Marshall reports from Ottawa about what the Confederation Line looks like.


• Adam Shatz at the NYR Daily looks at the power of improvisation in music.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at South Williamsburg Jewish deli Gottlieb's.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the new Patti Smith book, Year of the Monkey.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper looking as the factors leading into transnational movements.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the question of the direction(s) in which order in the universe was generated.


• Window on Eurasia shares a report noting the very minor flows of migration from China to Russia.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the politics in the British riding of Keighley.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at some penguin socks.