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Centauri Dreams notes the astounding precision of the new Habitable Planet Finder telescope.

D-Brief notes that the lack of small craters on Pluto and Charon suggests there are not many small bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

Far Outliers notes the many and widely varying transliterations of Bengali to English.

JSTOR Daily notes the extent to which border walls represent, ultimately, a failure of politics.

Language Log examines the emergence of the Germanic languages in the depths of prehistory.

Anna Aslanyan at the LRB Blog considers the eternal search for a universal language.

Noah Smith shareshis Alternative Green New Deal Plan at his blog, one that depends more on technology and market forces than the original.

Mitchell Abidor at the NYR Daily writes about the incisive leftism of journalist Victor Sorge.

Out There notes the reality that the worlds of our solar system, and almost certainly other systems, are united by a constant stream of incoming rocks.

At the Planetary Society Blog, Emily Lakdawalla examines the data transmitted back by OSIRIS-REx from that probe's Earth flyby.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines cosmic conditions at the time the solar system formed 4.56 billion or so years ago.

Towleroad notes the censorship of many explicitly gay scenes from Bohemian Rhapsody in its Chinese release.

Window on Eurasia looks at the many ways in which the social norms of North Caucasian men are converging with those of the average Russian.

On St. David's Day, Arnold Zwicky pays tribute to the daffodil and to the Welsh.

Centauri Dreams considers the possibility of life not based on DNA as we know it.

D-Brief considers the possibility that the formation of stratocumulus clouds might be halted by climate change.

Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the negative health effects of the stresses imposed by racists.

Far Outliers notes the mix of migrants in the population of Calcutta.

Hornet Stories notes that the Brazilian government is preparing to revoke marriage equality.

Erin Blakemore writes at JSTOR Daily about the gloriously messy complexity of Jane Eyre.

Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the growing anti-government protests in Algeria.

The NYR Daily notes the response of Auden to an anthology's no-platforming of the poems of Ezra Pound.

pollotenchegg reports on Soviet census data from 1990, mapping the great disparities between different parts of the Soviet Union.

Starts With A Bang notes the mysterious quiet of the black hole at the heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51.

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia is growing increasingly dependent on a more competent China.

Arnold Zwicky writes about some of his encounters, past and present, on Emerson Street in Palo Alto.

D-Brief considers the possibility that human food when eaten by bears, by shortening their hibernation periods, might contribute to their premature aging.

The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the political power of sports and of music.

Far Outliers notes the rising bourgeoisie of Calcutta in the 1990s.

Steve Roby at The Fifteenth makes the case for Discovery as worthy of being considered Star Trek, not least because it is doing something new.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing notes how our tendency to track our lives through data can become dystopian.

JSTOR Daily notes that Illinois is starting to become home to resident populations of bald eagles.

Language Log takes a look at Ubykh.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a Trumpist Canadian border guard.

The New APPS Blog notes how helicopter parenting is linked to rising levels of inequality.

The NYR Daily considers Jasper Johns.

At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane considers the rhythms and cycles of life generally and of being a writer specifically.

Otto Pohl looks at how people from the different German communities of southeast Europe were, at the end of the Second World War, taken to the Soviet Union as forced labourers.

Steve Maynard writes at Spacing, in the aftermath of the death of Jackie Shane, about the erasure and recovery of non-white queer history in Toronto.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains what would happen if someone fell into a blackhole.

Window on Eurasia notes that the number of immigrants to Russia are falling, with Ukrainians diminishing particularly in number while Central Asian numbers remain more resistant to the trend.

Arnold Zwicky notes the telling omission of sexual orientation as a protected category re: hate crimes.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait considers the possibility that the remarkably low-density 'Oumuamua might be a cosmic snowflake.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the challenges of free-lance writing, including clients who disappear before they pay their writers for their work.

Centauri Dreams notes that observations of cosmic collisions by gravitational wave astronomy are becoming numerous enough to determine basic features of the universe like Hubble's constant.

D-Brief notes that the Hayabusa2 probe is set to start mining samples from asteroid Ryugu.

Dangerous Minds remembers radical priest and protester Philip Berrigan.

At the Everyday Sociology Blog, Irina Seceleanu explains why state defunding of public education in the United States is making things worse for students.

Far Outliers notes how many of the communities in South Asia that saw soldiers go off to fight for the British Empire opposed this imperial war.

JSTOR Daily looks at the decidedly NSFW love letters of James Joyce to Nora Barnacle. Wasn't Kate Bush inspired by them?

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how the failure of the California high-speed rail route reveals many underlying problems with funding for infrastructure programs in the United States.

Marginal Revolution notes the creepy intrusiveness of a new app in China encouraging people to study up on Xi Jinping thought.

The Planetary Society Blog looks at what is to be expected come the launch of the Beresheet Moon lander by Israeli group SpaceIL.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society considers the philosophical nature of the Xerox Corporation.

Window on Eurasia notes that the Russian Orthodox Church seems not to be allowing the mass return of its priests who lost congregations to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Russia.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell considers the astute ways in which El Chapo is shown to have run his business networks.

Arnold Zwicky looks at two recent British films centering on displays of same-sex male attraction, The Pass and God's Own Country.

Colby King writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about furnace, kiln, and oven operators as recorded in the American Community Survey. What experiences do they have in common, and which separate them?

Far Outliers reports on the work of the Indian Labourer Corps on the Western Front, collecting and recycling raw materials from the front.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes the case that the seeming neutrality of modern digital technologies are dissolving the established political order.

Joe. My. God. notes a report from Andrew McCabe suggesting that Trump did not believe his own intelligence services' reports about the range of North Korean missiles, instead believing Putin.

JSTOR Daily notes how the interracial marriages of serving members of the US military led to the liberalization of immigration law in the United States in the 1960s.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the connections of the police in Portland, Oregon, to the alt-right.

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution shares a report of the discovery of English-speaking unicorns in South America that actually reveals the remarkable language skills of a new AI. Fake news, indeed.

The NYR Daily shares a short story by Panashe Chigumadzi, "You Can't Eat Beauty".

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw welcomes a new fluidity in Australian politics that makes the elections debatable.

Drew Rowsome looks at the horror fiction of Justin Cronin.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares some of the key historical images of Pluto, from its discovery to the present.

Window on Eurasia takes a look at the only church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church operating in Russia, in the Moscow area city of Noginsk.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell makes the point that counting on opinion pieces in journalism as a source of unbiased information is a categorical mistake.

Arnold Zwicky looks back, on President's Day at Berkeley, at his experiences and those of others around him at that university and in its community.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the evidence for the massive collision that left exoplanet Kepler 107c an astoundingly dense body.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly tells her readers the secrets of the success of her relationship with her husband, Jose.

Centauri Dreams notes what the New Horizons probe has found out, of Ultima Thule and of Pluto, by looking back.

The Crux shares the obituaries of scientists from NASA for the Opportunity rover.

D-Brief reports that NASA has declared the Opportunity rover's mission officially complete.

Dead Things introduces its readers to Mnyamawamtuka, a titanosaur from Tanzania a hundred million years ago.

Drew Ex Machina shares a stunning photo of Tropical Cyclone Gita, taken from the ISS in 2018.

Far Outliers notes how the Indian Army helped save the British army's positions from collapse in the fall of 1914.

Joe. My. God. notes a Christian group in the United States trying to encourage a boycott of supposedly leftist candy manufacturers like Hershey's.

JSTOR Daily looks at why covenant marriage failed to become popular.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains the hatred for new Congressperson Ilham Omar.

The Planetary Society Blog links to ten interesting podcasts relating to exploration, of Earth and of space.

Drew Rowsome interviews Tobias Herzberg about Feygele, his show in the Rhubarb festival at Buddies in Bad Times.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at the evidence, presented by (among others) Geneviève von Petzinger, suggesting that forty thousand years ago cave artists around the world may have shared a common language of symbols.

Window on Eurasia suggests that the policies of Putin are contributing to a growing sense of nationalism in Belarus.

Quanta Magazine notes that the deep learning offered by new artificial intelligences can help pick out traces of non-homo sapiens ancestry in our current gene pool.

This sensitive article in The Atlantic examines the extent to which consciousness and emotion are ubiquitous in the world of animals.

NASA notes evidence of the great greening of China and India, associated not only with agriculture in both countries but with the commitment of China to reforestation projects.

Mashable examines the fundamental brittleness of closed systems that will likely limit the classical generation starship.

SciTechDaily notes new observations of SN 1987A revealing a much greater prediction of dust than previously believed.

Architectuul takes a look at a new exhibition exploring women architects in Bauhaus.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a photo of Chang'e-4 taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Centauri Dreams notes the power of perspective, demonstrated by photos taken in space far from the Earth.

Far Outliers notes the role of the Indian army, during the Raj, in engaging and mobilizing peasants while allowing recruits to maintain village traditions.

Joe. My. God. notes a new study from the Netherlands suggesting the children of same-sex parents do better in school than children of opposite-sex parents.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the astonishing plagiarism and sloppy writing of former NYT editor Jill Abramson.

Michael Hofman at the LRB Blog takes a look at the mindset producing the Brexit catastrophe.

Marginal Revolution takes a look at the decline of the wealth tax in recent decades in high-income countries. Apparently the revenues collected were often not substantial enough.

The Planetary Society Blog shares missions updates from Chang'e-4 on the Moon.

Drew Rowsome reviews the Cirque Éloize show Hotel.

Window on Eurasia notes one call for Tatarstan, and Tatar nationalists, to abandon a territorial model of identity focused on the republic, seeing as how so many Tatars live outside of Tatarstan.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the play in language involved in a recent Bizarro comic.

Architectuul looks at the divided cities of the divided island of Cyprus.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares an image of a galaxy that actually has a tail.

Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber talks about her pain as an immigrant in the United Kingdom in the era of Brexit, her pain being but one of many different types created by this move.

The Crux talks about the rejected American proposal to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, and the several times the United States did arrange for lesser noteworthy events there (collisions, for the record).

D-Brief notes how the innovative use of Curiosity instruments has explained more about the watery past of Gale Crater.

Bruce Dorminey notes one astronomer's theory that Venus tipped early into a greenhouse effect because of a surfeit of carbon relative to Earth.

Far Outliers looks at missionaries in China, and their Yangtze explorations, in the late 19th century.

Gizmodo notes evidence that Neanderthals and Denisovans cohabited in a cave for millennia.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox writes about his exploration of the solo music of Paul McCartney.

io9 looks at what is happening with Namor in the Marvel universe, with interesting echoes of recent Aquaman storylines.

JSTOR Daily looks at the Beothuk of Newfoundland and their sad fate.

Language Hat explores Patagonian Afrikaans.

Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on how mindboggling it is to want to be a billionaire. What would you do with that wealth?

The Map Room Blog shares a visualization of the polar vortex.

Marginal Revolution reports on the career of a writer who writes stories intended to help people fall asleep.

The New APPS Blog reports on the power of biometric data and the threat of its misuse.

Neuroskeptic takes a look at neurogenesis in human beings.

Out There notes the import, in understanding our solar system, of the New Horizons photos of Ultima Thule.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog notes that OSIRIS-REx is in orbit of Bennu and preparing to take samples.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of 21 things that visitors to Kolkata should know.

Mark Simpson takes a critical look at the idea of toxic masculinity. Who benefits?

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why global warming is responsible for the descent of the polar vortex.

Window on Eurasia notes how the pro-Russian Gagauz of Moldova are moving towards a break if the country at large becomes pro-Western.

Arnold Zwicky looks at the art of Finnish painter Hugo Simberg.

Ridership on the Hamilton Street Railway is growing but still below projected numbers. Global News reports.

Residents of the Lincolnshire city of Boston, one of the most pro-Brexit in the United Kingdom, fear Brexit might not happen. Global News reports.

CityLab notes how the Spanish city of Valencia is doing its best to keep local bee populations thriving.

Deutsche Welle takes a look at how residents of one village once on the fringes of Moscow have found their environment transformed by massive urbanization.

Guardian Cities takes a look at the central position played by "Tollywood", the Telugu-speaking film industry's hub, in the fate of a globalizing Hyderabad.

I've a post up at Demography Matters. As a prelude to more substantial posting, I thought I would share with readers some demographics-related links from my readings in the blogosphere.

The blog Far Outliers, concentrating on the author's readings, has been looking at China in recent weeks. Migrations have featured prominently, whether in exploring the history of Russian migration to the Chinese northeast, looking at the Korean enclave of Yanbian that is now a source and destination for migrants, and looking at how Tai-speakers in Yunnan maintain links with Southeast Asia through religion. The history of Chinese migration within China also needs to be understood.

Lawyers, Guns and Money was quite right to argue that much of the responsibility for Central Americans' migration to the United States has to be laid at the foot of an American foreign policy that has caused great harm to Central America. Aaron Bastani at the London Review of Books' Blog makes similar arguments regarding emigration from Iran under sanctions.

Marginal Revolution has touched on demographics, looking at the possibility for further fertility decline in the United States and noting how the very variable definitions of urbanization in different states of India as well as nationally can understate urbanization badly.

Dangerous Minds takes note of a robot that grows marijuana.

The Dragon's Tales has a nice links roundup looking at what is happening with robots.

Far Outliers notes the differences between the African and Indian experiences in the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and the Seychelles.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing recovers a Paul Goodman essay from 1969 talking about making technology a domain not of science but of philosophy.

JSTOR Daily notes the mid-19th century origins of the United States National Weather Service in the American military.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the extent to which Jared Kushner is not an amazingly good politician.

The Map Room Blog notes artist Jake Berman's maps of vintage transit systems in the United States.

The NYR Daily examines The Price of Everything, a documentary about the international trade in artworks.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw wonders how long the centre will hold in a world that seems to be screaming out of control. (I wish to be hopeful, myself.)

Drew Rowsome reports on a Toronto production of Hair, 50 years young.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shows maps depicting the very high levels of air pollution prevailing in parts of London.

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Architectuul looks at the modernist works of Spanish Antonio Lamela, building after the Second World War under Franco.

Centauri Dreams considers the possibility of life-supporting environments on Barnard's Star b, a frozen super-Earth.

The Crux takes a look at how, and when, human beings and their ancestors stopped being as furry as other primates.

D-Brief notes the Russian startup that wants to put advertisements in Earth orbit.

Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the Soyuz 4 and 5 missions, the first missions to see two crewed craft link up in space.

Far Outliers notes
L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing notes the ironies of housing a state-of-the-art supercomputers in the deconsecrated Torre Girona Chapel in Barcelona.

Gizmodo notes a new study claiming that the rings of Saturn may be less than a hundred million years old, product of some catastrophic obliteration of an ice moon perhaps.

Joe. My. God. notes the death of Pulitzer-winning lesbian poet Mary Oliver.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the rising prominence of hoarding as a psychological disorder.

Language Hat shares a manuscript more than a hundred pages long, reporting on terms relating to sea ice used in the Inupiaq language spoken by the Alaska community of Kifigin, or Wales.

Language Log examines the etymology of "slave" and "Slav". (Apparently "ciao" is also linked to these words.)

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that Buzzfeed was right to claim that Trump ordered his lawyer to lie to Congress about the Moscow Trump Tower project.

Marginal Revolution notes a serious proposal in the Indian state of Sikkim to set up a guaranteed minimum income project.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps links to a map showing visitations of the Virgin Mary worldwide, both recognized and unrecognized by the Vatican.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the continuing controversy over the identity of AT2018cow.

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russians have more to fear from a Sino-Russian alliance than Americans, on account of the possibility of a Chinese takeover of Russia enabled by this alliance.

Charlie Stross at Antipope notes the many problems appearing already with 2019, starting with Brexit.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait examines the mysterious AT2018cow event. What was it?

blogTO notes that the Ontario government seems to be preparing for a new round of amalgamation, this time involving Toronto neighbours.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about her strategies for minimizing her personal waste, including buying expensive durables.

D-Brief shares Chang'e-4 photos taken on the far side of the Moon.

Bruce Dorminey notes an innovative design for a steam-powered asteroid hopper.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about verstehen, the process of coming to an understanding of a subject, as demonstrated in the Arlene Stein study Unbound about trans men.

Gizmodo looks at the remarkably complex nascent planetary system of the quarternary star system HD 98800.

Imageo shares a visualization of the terrifyingly rapid spread of the Camp Fire.

JSTOR Daily debunks the myth of Wilson's unconditional support for the Fourteen Points.

Language Hat notes a new study that claims to provide solid grounds for distinguishing dialects from languages.

Language Log looks at what David Bowie had to say about the Internet in 1999, and how he said it.

Christine Gordon Manley writes about her identity as a Newfoundlander.

Marginal Revolution notes the very variable definitions of urbanization in different states of India as well as nationally.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog shares a few more images of Ultima Thule.

Drew Rowsome reviews a new Toronto production of Iphegenia and the Furies.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how a fifth dimension might make the instantaneous spore drive of Discovery possible.

Window on Eurasia links to an article examining eight misconceptions of Russians about Belarus.

Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers what it means to live a kintsugi life.

The Crux looks at the difficulties facing the researches who seek to understand the undeciphered script of the Indus Valley Civilization.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog notes the importance, and relevance, of studying sociological research methods.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing revives from the archives an old article from the 1980s looking at the impact of VCRs on their users.

JSTOR Daily examines the new challenges facing makeup artists in the early Technicolor era of Hollywood in the 1930s.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the economic motives for well-off Chinese households to engage in the footbinding of young women.

Gabrielle Bellot writes at the NYR Daily about a remarkable overlooked work by James Baldwin, the children's book Little Man, Little Man illustrated by Yoran Cazac.

The Planetary Society Blog notes that the Opportunity rover on Mars is still silent, though there is still hope for the robot that could.

The Russian Demographics Blog shares a map examining the distribution of speakers of English in the Russian Federation circa 2010.

Drew Rowsome reviews a collection of the comic horror short stories of Isaac Thorne.

Speed River Journal's Van Waffle meditates on lichen and dogs in the park.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on NGC 1052-DF2, a diffuse galaxy that seems to have been formed in the aftermath of a sort of conflict with dark matter.

The top post of 2018 at Strange Company was this post looking at the mysterious 1911 murder in Indianapolis of German-born doctor Helen Knabe.

John Scalzi at Whatever notes, in response to a recent survey suggesting authors have very low incomes, that most authors have never earned that much.

Window on Eurasia takes a look, in the wake of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, controversy in Belarus over a possible similar move there.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the sheer complexity of the potential options for the United Kingdom with Brexit makes simple strategies--and a simple referendum question--exceptionally difficult.

Arnold Zwicky has an enjoyable rumination starting from a Owen Smith parody of the Edward Hopper painting Nighthawk on the cover of The New Yorker.

Architectuul looks at some examples of endangered architecture in the world, in London and Pristina and elsewhere.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait examines a bizarre feature on the Moon's Lacus Felicitatus.

The Big Picture shares photos exploring the experience of one American, Marie Cajuste, navigating the health care system as she sought cancer treatment.

Centauri Dreams looks at a new proposal for an interstellar craft making use of neutral particle beam-driven sails.

Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber writes about the question of what individual responsibility people today should take for carbon emissions.

The Crux takes a look at what the earliest (surviving) texts say about the invention of writing.

D-Brief notes an interesting proposal to re-use Christmas trees after they are tossed out.

The Dragon's Tales notes that India has approved funding for crewed spaceflight in 2022, in the Gaganyaan program.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the Apollo 8 mission.

Far Outliers looks at the experiences of British consuls in isolated Kashgar, in what is now Xinjiang.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing argues that it can take time to properly see things, that speed can undermine understanding.

JSTOR Daily notes how people with depression use language, opting to use absolute words more often than the norm.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how the Bolsonario government in Brazil has set to attacking indigenous people.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper arguing that Greek life in the colleges of the United States, the fraternity system, has a negative impact on the grades of participants.

George Hutchinson writes at the NYR Daily about how race, of subjects and of the other, complicates readings of Louisiana-born author Jean Toomey and his novel Cane, about life on sugar cane plantations in that state.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw reflects on his Christmas reading, including a new history of Scandinavia in the Viking age told from their perspective.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the Milky Way Galaxy in its formative years. What did it look like?

Strange Company highlights its top 10 posts over the past year.

Window on Eurasia wonders at reports the Uniate Catholics of Ukraine are seeking a closer alliance with the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Arnold Zwicky reports on the nearly iconic and ubiquitous phalluses of Bhutan, as revealed by a trip by Anthony Bourdain.

D-Brief notes evidence that human growth hormone harvested from dead people can transfer Alzheimer's disease to recipients.

Far Outliers reports on how Choshu fought off the bakufu in 1866.

Gizmodo reports the discovery of a distant Kuiper belt object, orbiting at 120 AU, provisionally named "Farout."

JSTOR Daily notes the links between successful start-ups and social privilege.

The LRB Blog notes the restrictions placed on travel to the Andaman and Nicobar islands, and on contact with the threatened indigenous peoples there.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution explains how he tries to understand cultural codes, with their major influence on economic dynamics.

The NYR Daily looks at the contemporary nature art of Walton Ford.

Drew Rowsome reviews the Jonathan Janz novella Witching House Theatre.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares astronomical photos of exoplanets which show how planets form.

Yesterday, Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy noted at blog's celebration of the Roman holiday of Saturnalia.

At Whatever, John Scalzi celebrates the excellent new animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, as does Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money.

Window on Eurasia notes how the decision of the Russian government to move the capital of the Far Eastern federal district from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok will harm that first city but not do that much for the second.

Arnold Zwicky considers the art of appearances, queer and otherwise.

Architectuul interviews Vladimir Kulić, curator of the MoMA exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, about the history of innovative architecture in Yugoslavia.

The Crux takes a look at the long search for hidden planets in the solar system, starting with Neptune and continuing to Tyche.

D-Brief notes that ISRO, the space agency of India, is planning on launching a mission to Venus, and is soliciting outside contributions.

Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage writes about his efforts to photograph, from space, clouds over California's Mount Whitney.

Earther notes that geoengineering is being considered as one strategy to help save the coral reefs.

Gizmodo takes a look at the limits, legal and otherwise, facing the Internet Archive in its preservation of humanity's online history.

JSTOR Daily explains why the Loch Ness monster has the scientific binominal Nessiteras rhombopteryx.
Language Hat links to "The Poor Man of Nippur", a short film by Cambridge academic Martin Worthington that may be the first film in the Babylonian language.

The LRB Blog notes the conflict between West Bank settlers and Airbnb. Am I churlish to wish that neither side wins?

Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting how quickly, after Poland regained its independence, human capital differences between the different parts of the once-divided country faded.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel takes a look at what it takes, in terms of element abundance and galactic structure, for life-bearing planets to form in the early universe, and when they can form.

Bored Panda shares the story of a gay man in London apparently turned down as a prospective cat dad because of his sexual orientation.

JSTOR Daily, reporting from the search for a man-eating tiger in India, notes that some perfumes apparently attract big cats (and small ones?).

D-Brief notes findings from researchers in cat genetics that six different subspecies of tigers exist in the world today.

Quartzy notes the story of two cats who have been trying to get into a Japanese art museum for two years.

Vanity Fair notes how Freddie Mercury was terribly fond of his cats, devoting songs and albums to them, even.

This Joseph Kelly extract at Longreads looks at how maroons and pirates made common cause in the Caribbean in fighting for their freedom.

The Atlantic reports on how witchcraft is becoming popular among many African-Americans, especially African-American women, who reject Christianity.

The Conversation looks at the feminist critiques of the novels of Jane Austen, only barely hidden.

The BBC notes how an ancient myth of a Korean queen's origins in India is being used to build a new relationship between South Korea and India.

Ozy takes a look at a Filipino man who is trying to save the ancient baybayin script of the Philippines.

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