[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• {anthro}dendum features a post by Kimberly J. Lewis about stategies for anthropologists to write, and be human, after trauma.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on exoplanet LHC 3844b, a world that had its atmosphere burned away by its parent star.


• Centauri Dreams looks at Neptune from the perspective of exoplanets discovered near snow lines.


• D-Brief reports on the new Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, installed at Kitt Peak to help map galaxies and dark energy.


• Gizmodo
• looks at how Airbnb is dealing with party houses after a fatal mass shooting.


• The Island Review shares some drawings by Charlotte Watson, inspired by the subantarctic Auckland Islands.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the late 19th century hit novel Ramona, written by Helen Hunt Jackson to try to change American policy towards indigenous peoples.


• Language Hat looks at how, until recently, the Faroese language had taboos requiring certain words not to be used at sea.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at a proposal to partially privatize American national parks.


• The LRB Blog looks at what Nigel Farage will be doing next.


• Marginal Revolution looks at a speculative theory on the origins of American individualism in agrarian diversity.


• The NYR Daily looks at an exhibition of the artwork of John Ruskin.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw remarks on a connection between Arthur Ransome and his region of New England.


• Drew Rowsome shares an interview with folk musician Michelle Shocked.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel emphasizes the importance of the dark energy mystery.


• Towleroad notes a posthumous single release by George Michael.


• Daniel Little at Understanding Society celebrates the 12th anniversary of his blog, and looks back at its history.


• Window on Eurasia looks at Ingushetia after 1991.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at All Saints Day.