[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Bad Astronomy notes a new detailed study suggesting that asteroid Hygeia is round. Does this mean it is a dwarf planet?


• The Buzz notes that the Toronto Public Library has a free booklet on the birds of Toronto available at its branches.


• Crooked Timber looks forward to a future, thanks to Trump, without the World Trade Organization.


• D-Brief notes how the kelp forests off California were hurt by unseasonal heat and disease.


• Bruce Dorminey notes an impending collision of supergalactic clusters.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how judgement can complicate collective action.


• Language Hat looks at the different definitions of the word "mobile".

Language Log looks at the deep influence of the Persian language upon Marathi.
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44807

• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how, if anything, climate scientists make conservative claims about their predictions.


• Marginal Revolution wonders if planned power outages are a good way to deal with the threat of wildfires in California.


• The NYR Daily looks at the ethnic cleansing being enabled by Turkey in Kurdish Syria.


• Corey S. Powell at Out There interviews archeologist Arthur Lin about his use of space-based technologies to discovery traces of the past.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the staggering inequality in Chile, driver of the recent protests.


• At Roads and Kingdoms, Anthony Elghossain reports from the scene of the mass protests in Lebanon.


• Drew Rowsome tells how his balcony garden fared this year.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at stellar generations in the universe. (Our sun is a third-generation star.)


• Strange Company looks at the murder of a girl five years old in Indiana in 1898. Was the neighbor boy twelve years old accused of the crime the culprit?


• Denis Colombi at Une heure de peine takes a look at social mobility in France.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little considers economic historians and their study of capitalism.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the pro-Russian policies of the Moldova enclave of Gagauzia, and draws recommendations for Ukraine re: the Donbas.