[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that Betelgeuse is very likely not on the verge of a supernova, here.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the mapping of asteroid Bennu.


• Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber reposted, after the election, a 2013 essay looking at the changes in British society from the 1970s on.


• The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links about the Precambrian Earth, here.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about fear in the context of natural disasters, here.


• Far Outliers reports on the problems of privateers versus regular naval units.


• Gizmodo looks at galaxy MAMBO-9, which formed a billion years after the Big Bang.


• io9 writes about the alternate history space race show For All Mankind.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the posters used in Ghana in the 1980s to help promote Hollywood movies.


• Language Hat links to a new book that examines obscenity and gender in 1920s Britain.


• Language Log looks at the terms used for the national language in Xinjiang.


• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money takes issue with Jeff Jacoby's lack of sympathy towards people who suffer from growing inequality.


• Marginal Revolution suggests that urbanists should have an appreciation for Robert Moses.


• Sean Marshall writes, with photos, about his experiences riding a new Bolton bus.


• Caryl Philips at the NYR Daily writes about Rachmanism, a term wrongly applied to the idea of avaricious landlords like Peter Rachman, an immigrant who was a victim of the Profumo scandal.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper looking at the experience of aging among people without families.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why the empty space in an atom can never be removed.


• Strange Maps shares a festive map of London, a reindeer, biked by a cyclist.


• Window on Eurasia notes how Mongolia twice tried to become a Soviet republic.


• Arnold Zwicky considers different birds with names starting with x.