[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares a stunning photo taken by a friend of the Pleiades star cluster.


• The Buzz, at the Toronto Public Library, shares a collection of books suitable for World Vegan Month, here.


• Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber considers, with an eye towards China and the Uighurs, how panopticon attempts can stray badly on account of--among other things--false assumptions.


• Gizmodo considers how antimatter could end up providing interesting information about the unseen universe.


• Joe. My. God. reports from New York City, where new HIV cases are dropping sharply on account of PrEP.


• JSTOR Daily shares a vintage early review of Darwin's Origin of Species.


• Language Hat examines the origins of the semicolon, in Venice in 1494.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a critical report of the new Jill Lepore book These Truths.


• The LRB Blog reports from the Museum of Corruption in Kyiv, devoted to the corruption of the ancient regime in Ukraine.


• Marginal Revolution shares a new history of the Lakota.


• The NYR Daily looks at the photography of Duane Michals.


• The Russian Demographics Blog looks at population trends in Russia, still below 1991 totals in current frontiers.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why some of the lightest elements, like lithium, are so rare.


• Window on Eurasia shares the opinion of a Russian historian that Eastern Europe is back as a geopolitical zone.


• Arnold Zwicky considers Jacques Transue in the light of other pop culture figures and trends.