[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
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- Bad Astronomer considers how a stellar-mass black hole of 70 solar masses got so unaccountably huge.
- Alex Tolley at Centauri Dreams considers the colours of photosynthesis, and how they might reveal the existence of life on exoplanets.
- The Dragon's Tales shares some links on humans in the Paleolithic.
- Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog considers the scripts of jokes.
- Gizmodo reports on the repurposed China-Netherlands radio telescope operating from an orbit above the far side of the Moon.
- JSTOR Daily considers the political rhetoric of declinism.
- Language Log considers the controversy over the future of the apostrophe.
- James Butler at the LRB Blog notes a YouGov prediction of a Conservative majority in the UK and how this prediction is not value-neutral.
- Marginal Revolution shares a paper from India noting how caste identities do affect the labour supply.
- Ursula Lindsay at the NYR Daily considers if the political crisis in Lebanon, a product of economic pressures and sectarianism, might lead to a revolutionary transformation of the country away from sectarian politics.
- Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections looks at some of the many complicated and intermingled issues of contemporary Australia.
- The Planetary Society Blog reports on the latest projects funded by the ESA.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares ten beautiful photos taken in 2019 by the Hubble.
- Strange Company reports on the strange unsolved disappearance of Lillian Richey from her Idaho home in 1964.
- Window on Eurasia shares a Russian criticism of the Ukrainian autocephalous church as a sort of papal Protestantism.
- Arnold Zwicky considers the positive potential of homoeros.