[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer notes a new study explaining how climate change makes hurricanes more destructive.


• Centauri Dreams shares a mosaic photo of the sky with Alpha Centauri highlighted.


• The Crux shares a paper explaining why the bubonic plague rarely becomes mass epidemics like the Black Death of the 14th century.


• D-Brief notes the new ESA satellite ARIEL, which will be capable of determining of exoplanet skies are clear or not.


• Gizmodo consults different experts on the subject of smart drugs. Do they work?


• JSTOR Daily explains why Native Americans are so prominent in firefighting in the US Southwest.


• Language Log looks at evidence for the diffusion of "horse master" between speakers of ancient Indo-European and Sinitic languages.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the election of Chesa Boudin as San Francisco District Attorney.


• The LRB Blog considers the apparent pact between Farage and Johnson on Brexit.


• Marginal Revolution looks at a paper examining longer-run effects of the integration of the US military on racial lines in the Korean War.


• The NYR Daily looks at how Big Pharma in the US is trying to deal with the opioid epidemic.


• The Signal explains how the Library of Congress is expanding its collections of digital material.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how future generations of telescopes will be able to directly measure the expansion of the universe.


• The Volokh Conspiracy explains why DACA, giving succor to Dreamers, is legal.


• Window on Eurasia notes that, after a century of tumult, the economy of Russia is back at the same relative ranking that it enjoyed a century ago.


• Arnold Zwicky reports on an old butch cookbook.