[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy looks at ALMA's observations of the birth of binary star system, here.


• The Buzz, at the Toronto Public Library, announces the Governor-General's Literary Awards from 2019, here.


• Centauri Dreams notes how we might be able to find a wormhole at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy.


• The Crux commemorates the enormously successful and long-lasting Voyager missions.


• D-Brief notes a self-tending swarm search and rescue drones.


• Bruce Dorminey notes how the first discoveries of exoplanets were a consequence of innovative technology and thinking.


• Steve Attewell at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that he is talking about the new idea in X-Men of a mutant nation-state over at Graphic Policy Radio.


• The LRB Blog notes Manif pour Tous mobilizing against new human reproduction laws in France.


• Marginal Revolution looks at how the drug war in Mexico has been getting worse.


• Neuroskeptic considers: What traits would a human population adapted to contemporary environmental pressures exhibit?


• The NYR Daily looks at a new exhibition of critical Internet-related art by Meriam Bennani.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at a remarkable double gravitational lens, and what it reveals about the universe.


• Window on Eurasia notes that although half of working-age people in Uzbekistan have been educated in the Latin script, many remain fluent in Cyrillic.


• Arnold Zwicky considers the many implications of fried pickles with ranch dressing.