[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Centauri Dreams notes how gas giants on eccentric orbits can easily disrupt bodies on orbits inwards.


• Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber suggests that the political culture of England has been deformed by the trauma experienced by young children of the elites at boarding schools.


• Dangerous Minds looks at the haunting art of Paul Delvaux.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the work of Tressie McMillan Cottom in investigating for-profit higher education.


• Far Outliers looks at Tripoli in 1801.


• Gizmodo shares the Boeing design for the moon lander it proposes for NASA in 2024.


• io9 shares words from cast of Terminator: Dark Fate about the importance of the Mexican-American frontier.


• JSTOR Daily makes a case against killing spiders trapped in one's home.


• Language Hat notes a recovered 17th century translation of a Dutch bible into the Austronesian language of Siraya, spoken in Taiwan.


• Language Log looks at the origin of the word "brogue".


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the payday lender industry.


• Marginal Revolution notes a new biography of Walter Raleigh, a maker of empire indeed.


• The NYR Daily looks at a new dance show using the rhythms of the words of writer Robert Walser.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how, in a quantum universe, time and space could still be continuous not discrete.


• Strange Company looks at a court case from 1910s Brooklyn, about a parrot that swore.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes an affirmative action court case in which it was ruled that someone from Gibraltar did not count as Hispanic.


• Window on Eurasia notes rhetoric claiming that Russians are the largest divided people on the Earth.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at lizards and at California's legendary Highway 101.