[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait observes that a team may have discovered the elusive neutron star produced by Supernova 1987A, hidden behind a cloud of dust.


• Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber shares a photo he made via the time-consuming 19th century wet-plate collodion method.


• Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage looks at the Apollo 12 visit to the Surveyor 3 site to, among other things, see what it might suggest about future space archeology.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the story of rural poverty facing a family in Waverly, Ohio, observing how it is a systemic issue.


• George Dvorsky at Gizmodo looks at how Mars' Jezero crater seems to have had a past relatively friendly to life, good for the next NASA rover.


• Joe. My. God. reports on the latest ignorance displayed by Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter, this time regarding HIV.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how Climategate was used to undermine popular opinion on climate change.


• Language Hat links to an article explaining why so many works of classical literature were lost, among other things not making it onto school curricula.


• Language Log shares a photo of a Muji eraser with an odd English label.


• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests Pete Buttigieg faces a campaign-limiting ceiling to his support among Democrats.


• The LRB Blog argues that Macron's blocking of EU membership possibilities for the western Balkans is a terrible mistake.


• The Map Room Blog shares a map depicting regional variations in Canada towards anthropogenic climate change. Despite data issues, the overall trend of oil-producing regions being skeptical is clear.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the slowing pace of labour mobility in the US, suggesting that home attachment is a key factor.


• Frederic Wehrey at the NYR Daily tells the story of Knud Holmboe, a Danish journalist who came to learn about the Arab world working against Italy in Libya.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why thermodynamics does not explain our perception of time.


• Understanding Society's Dan Little looks at Electronic Health Records and how they can lead to medical mistakes.


• Whatever's John Scalzi shares a remarkable photo of the night sky he took using the astrophotography mode on his Pixel 4 phone.


• Window on Eurasia shares an opinion that the Intermarium countries, between Germany and Russia, can no longer count on the US and need to organize in their self-defense.


• Arnold Zwicky shares a photo of his handsome late partner Jacques Transue, taken as a college student.