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  • Architectuul visits the studio of Barbas Lopes Arquitectos in Lisbon, here.

  • Bad Astronomer takes a look at a new paper examining the effectiveness of different asteroid detection technologies, including nuclear weapons.

  • Centauri Dreams reports on a new study suggesting potentially habitable planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B, smaller of the two stars, could suffer from rapid shifts of their axes.

  • John Quiggin at Crooked Timber argues some polls suggest some American conservatives really would prefer Russia as a model to California.

  • Bruce Dorminey notes the discovery, by the Murchison Widefield Array in Australia, of 27 supernova remnants in our galaxy.

  • The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links about stealth aircraft, here.

  • Gizmodo notes a new study suggesting that DNA is but one of very very many potential genetic molecules.

  • Language Hat shares a reevaluation of the Richard Stanyhurst translation of the Aeneid, with its manufactured words. Why mightn't this have been not mockable but rather creative?

  • Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrated the 50th anniversary of the takeover of Alcatraz Island by Native American activists.

  • Chris Bertram writes at the LRB Blog, after the catastrophe of the Essex van filled with dozens of dead migrants, about the architecture of exclusion that keeps out migrants.

  • Marginal Revolution shares a comment looking at the fentanyl crisis from a new angle.

  • Jenny Uglow writes at the NYR Daily about a Science Museum exhibit highlighting the dynamic joys of science and its progress over the centuries.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw takes a look at the question of how to prevent the wildfires currently raging in Australia. What could have been done, what should be done?

  • The Planetary Society Blog reports on proposals from China for two long-range probe missions to interstellar space, including a Neptune flyby.

  • Drew Rowsome reviews the wonderfully innocent Pinocchio currently playing at the Young People's Theatre.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the evidence for the universe, maybe, being closed.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that the Alexandria Patriarchate is the next Orthodox body to recognize the Ukrainian church.

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at irregular versus regular, as a queer word too.

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  • Bad Astronomer notes a new study explaining how climate change makes hurricanes more destructive.

  • Centauri Dreams shares a mosaic photo of the sky with Alpha Centauri highlighted.

  • The Crux shares a paper explaining why the bubonic plague rarely becomes mass epidemics like the Black Death of the 14th century.

  • D-Brief notes the new ESA satellite ARIEL, which will be capable of determining of exoplanet skies are clear or not.

  • Gizmodo consults different experts on the subject of smart drugs. Do they work?

  • JSTOR Daily explains why Native Americans are so prominent in firefighting in the US Southwest.

  • Language Log looks at evidence for the diffusion of "horse master" between speakers of ancient Indo-European and Sinitic languages.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the election of Chesa Boudin as San Francisco District Attorney.

  • The LRB Blog considers the apparent pact between Farage and Johnson on Brexit.

  • Marginal Revolution looks at a paper examining longer-run effects of the integration of the US military on racial lines in the Korean War.

  • The NYR Daily looks at how Big Pharma in the US is trying to deal with the opioid epidemic.

  • The Signal explains how the Library of Congress is expanding its collections of digital material.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how future generations of telescopes will be able to directly measure the expansion of the universe.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy explains why DACA, giving succor to Dreamers, is legal.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that, after a century of tumult, the economy of Russia is back at the same relative ranking that it enjoyed a century ago.

  • Arnold Zwicky reports on an old butch cookbook.

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  • Evan Gough at Universe Today notes the possibility that the asteroid Psyche, in its hot youth, might have had volcanoes ejecting molten iron.

  • Matt Williams at Universe Today notes a new paper suggesting that, on suitable exoplanets orbiting red dwarfs like Proxima Centauri b, their stars produce environments not much more hostile than those suffered by the early Earth.

  • Nadia Drake at National Geographic notes the news of the possible discovery of a second exoplanet at Proxima Centauri, c, in a five-year orbit.

  • Matt Williams at Universe Today shares a study tracing the paths of the Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft over millennia of movement in interstellar space.

  • Jason Pontin at WIRED shares the result of a study of twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly, noting how space affected Scott Kelly in negative ways. Long-distance human spaceflight is possible, but more work is definitely needed for it to be safe, even survivable.

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  • Anthrodendum recommends design researcher Jan Chipchase's Field Study Handbook for anthropologists interested in field practice.

  • Architectuul investigates strange similarities between buildings built in far-removed parts of the world.

  • Centauri Dreams takes a look at TESS, the next generation of exoplanet-hunting satellite.

  • Crooked Timber investigates the connections between the spiritualism of the 19th century and the fiction of the uncanny.

  • D-Brief notes the many names, often delightful, that newly-discovered locations on Mercury and Charon have received.

  • Cody Delistraty investigates two exhibitions of French satirists, including Charlie Hedo's Georges Wolinski, to examine the nature of satire.

  • The Dragon's Tales considers the possibility of cryomagna leaving marks on the surface of Europa.

  • Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the strangely alien skies of TRAPPIST-1e. What would its sun look like? How would the other planets appear?

  • The Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the new prominence of multigenerational households in the United States. While a response to economic strains, it also looks back to past traditions.

  • Hornet Stories notes how, on RuPaul's Drag Race, Monet X Change gave a decent explanation behind the surprisingly recent birth of the modern British accent.

  • Imageo notes how a massive blob of warm water is rising to the surface of the Pacific.

  • At In A State of Migration, Lyman Stone explores the unique population history of Maine, to my eyes easily the most Atlantic Canadian of the fifty American states.

  • JSTOR Daily links to a paper exploring why modern video games can produce such rewarding experiences for players. (We can get meaning from many places.)

  • Language Log takes a look at the complexity of Chinese language classifications with a song by Yishi Band. What exactly is Yibin Sichuanese?

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money takes a look at an interesting question: When did Jews in the United States become white?

  • The LRB Blog takes a look at the baffling reasons behind the poisoning of the Skribins with Novichok, and the science behind it.

  • Marginal Revolution notes that this year, GDP per capita measured at PPP in Spain is higher than in Italy. (This probably says more about the disarray in Italy.)

  • The NYR Daily shares an interesting interview with cartoonist Art Spiegelman.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw tells of his experiences on a trip to the small Australian city of Armidale, in the region of New England.

  • Justin Petrone reflects on the tidy and clean, minimalist even, rural landscape of Estonia.

  • Progressive Download's John Farrell notes brain scans that provide evidence of consciousness even in very young infants.

  • Drew Rowsome praises the Toronto production of the musical Fun Home, based on the Alison Bechdel graphic novel. I, for one, can't wait to see it.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, although Proxima Centauri is far too active a star for Proxima Centauri b to be Earth-like, that world could still plausibly host life-supporting environments.

  • Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy suggests a recent deal at the federal level in the US between Trump and Cory Gardner has created space for states to legalize marijuana without fear of federal intervention.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that a recent massive flare at Proxima Centauri, one that made the star become a thousand times brighter, not only makes Proxima b unlikely to be habitable but makes it unlikely Proxima has (as some suggested) a big planetary system.

  • The Dragon's Tales notes that South Korea, contrary to earlier reports, is not going to ban cryptocurrency.

  • Hornet Stories notes that six American states--Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, and Oklahoma--have seen the introduction of legislation replacing marriage with a marriage contract, on account of marriage equality.

  • JSTOR Daily reports on the deep similarities and differences between serfdom in Russia and slavery in the United States, both formally abolished in the 1860s.

  • Language Hat links to a Telegraph article reporting on the efforts of different people to translate different ancient languages.

  • The New APPS Blog notes that, after Delta dropped its discount for NRA members, the pro-NRA governor of Georgia dropped tax breaks for the airline.

  • This call for the world to respond to the horrors in Syria, shared at the NYR Daily, is likely to fall on deaf ears.

  • At Strange Maps, Frank Jacobs shares some maps showing areas where the United States is truly exceptional.

  • Supernova Condensate notes how nested planetary orbits can be used to trace beautiful spirograph patterns.

  • Window on Eurasia notes how no one in the Soviet Union in 1991 was prepared to do anything to save the Soviet Union.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait tells us what tantalizing little is known about Proxima Centauri and its worlds.

  • Centauri Dreams imagines that, for advanced civilizations based on energy-intensive computing, their most comfortable homes may be in the cool dark of space, intergalactic space even.

  • D-Brief notes an effort to predict the evolution of stick insects that went in interesting, if substantially wrong, directions.

  • Mark Graham notes that, in the developing world, the supply of people willing to perform digital work far outweighs the actual availability of jobs.

  • Mathew Ingram announces that he is now chief digital writer for the Columbia Journalism Review.

  • JSTOR Daily explores how consumerism was used, by the United States, to sell democracy to post-war West Germany.

  • Language Hat explores the script of the Naxi, a group in the Chinese Himalayas.

  • Paul Campos considers at Lawyers, Guns and Money the importance of JK Galbraith's The Affluent Society. If we are richer than ever before and yet our living standards are disappointing, is this not the sort of political failure imagined?

  • Russell Darnley takes a look at how the death of a community's language can lead to the death of that community's ecosystem.

  • Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog considers the possibility of the ISS being replaced by privately-owned space stations.

  • Dmitry Ermakov at Roads and Kingdoms shares some photos from his ventures among the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia.

  • Peter Rukavina shares a black-and-white photo of Charlottetown harbour covered in ice.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes the point that cancelling NASA's WFIRST telescope would kneecap NASA science.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares one picture of a vast galaxy cluster to underline how small our place in the universe is.

  • The Boston Globe's The Big Picture shares some photos of Syrian refugee families as they settle into the United States.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at the Dragonfly proposal for a Titan lander.

  • The Crux notes the exceptional vulnerability of the cultivated banana to an otherwise obscure fungus.

  • Bruce Dorminey notes NASA's preparation of the Clipper mission to investigate Europa.

  • The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas takes a look at the role of surveillance in the life of the modern student.

  • Hornet Stories has a nice interview of Sina Grace, author of Marvel's Iceman book.

  • Joe. My. God. reshared this holiday season a lovely anecdote, "Dance of the Sugar Plum Lesbians."

  • JSTOR Daily took a look at why Americans like dieting so much.

  • The LRB Blog considers the Thames Barrier, the meager protection of London against tides in a time of climate change.

  • The Map Room Blog notes the digitization of radar maps of Antarctica going back to the 1960s.

  • Marginal Revolution seems cautiously optimistic about the prospects of Morocco.
  • Russell Darnley at maximos62 is skeptical about the prospects of the forests of Indonesia's Riau province.

  • Stephanie Land at the NYR Daily talks about how she managed to combine becoming a writer with being a single mother of two young children.

  • Out There argues a lunar fuel depot could help support crewed interplanetary exploration.

  • Science Sushi notes genetic evidence the lionfish invasion of the North Atlantic off Florida began not with a single escape but with many.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes the argument an unmanned probe to Alpha Centauri could have significant technological spinoffs.

  • Supernova Condensate makes the point, apropos of nothing at all, that spaceship collisions can in fact unleash vast amounts of energy.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that, while Kazakhs see practical advantages to cooperation with Russia, they also see some problems.

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  • Could it be, as one theory suggests, that Mars did not form in the same area of the young solar system as Earth and Venus?

  • RZ Piscium, a young star 500 light-years away, is eating its planets. CBC reports.

  • Universe Today links to a paper indicating upper limits for planets at Alpha Centauri. Earth-like planets orbiting A and B are still possible.

  • The kilonova behind GW170817, detected in galaxy NGC 4993 earlier this year, is thought to have produced a black hole based on X-ray emissions. Universe Today reports.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes J0045, once thought to be a star in Andromeda and but recognized as a binary black hole a thousand times further away.

  • Centauri Dreams notes the longevity of the Voyager mission.

  • D-Brief notes that some worms can thrive in a simulacrum of Mars soil.

  • The Dragon's Gaze notes an ambitious effort to try to detect a transit of Proxima Centauri b. Did the researchers pick something up?

  • Hornet Stories links to a report suggesting HIV denialism is worryingly common in parts of Russia.

  • Language Log reports on an apparently oddly bilingual Chinese/Vietnamese poster. Where did it come from?

  • The LRB Blog reports on how Tunisian Anouar Brahem fused jazz with Arabic music on his new album Blue Maqems.

  • The Map Room Blog links to a lecture by John Cloud on indigenous contributions to mapmaking in Alaska.

  • The NYR Daily looks at the grim position of Theresa May in Brexit negotiations.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers what would have happened if the Americas had not been populated in 1492. How would imperialism and settlement differ?

  • Roads and Kingdoms notes some of the architectural legacies--houses, for instance--of Basque settlement in the American West.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes three conundrums that neutrinos might be able to solve.

  • Window on Eurasia notes why Russia is hostile, despite its program of merging federal units, to the idea of uniting Tatarstan with Bashkortostan.

  • Using an interwar map of Imperial Airways routes, Alex Harrowell illustrates how the construction of globalized networks can make relatively marginal areas quite central.

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  • Centauri Dreams notes the remarkably complex system of Proxima Centauri, with multiple belts and more possible planets, as does D-Brief.

  • D-Brief notes the discovery of a new sort of fusion reactions, involving not atoms but quarks.

  • Hornet Stories notes a new acoustic cover of the Kinky Boots song "Not My Father's Son."

  • Language Hat takes a brief look at Cyrillic, since the Soviet era written in Cyrillic script.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how the Trump Administration is unconcerned by the latest report regarding catastrophic climate change.

  • The LRB Blog notes how Armenia and Armenians remember past genocides and current refugee flows.

  • The Planetary Society Blog notes the further extension of the Dawn mission at Ceres.

  • Drew Rowsome shares some of Stephen King's tips for aspiring writers.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how some long-exposure Hubble photographs of galaxies picked up nearby asteroids.

  • John Scalzi shares his cover of "Rocket Man".

  • Window on Eurasia wonders if ISIS is spreading into Russia via migrant workers from Central Asia.

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  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlyn Kelly talks about the rejuvenating effects of "forest bathing". I quite agree, myself.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at the idea of Project Blue, a dedicated astronomy satellite to look for exoplanets at Alpha Centauri.

  • D-Brief notes that astrophysicists have verified an eclipse described in the Bible circa 1207 BCE.

  • The Dragon's Gaze links to another KIC 8462852 study, finding its dimming is best explained by circumstellar debris.

  • The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the importance of being careful with the use of numbers.

  • Far Outliers explores how Singapore managed to position itself as a safe destination for tourists visiting Asia.

  • Language Hat links to a beautiful passage from Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora on the messiness of language.

  • Language Log takes a look at the phenomenon of headlessness in the propaganda of North Korea.

  • The NYR Daily looks at the sad short life of Stanwix Melville.

  • The Planetary Society Blog shares multiple images, with multiple perspectives, of Giordano Bruno crater on the Moon.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw finds the use of Section 44 of the Australian Constitution to disqualify politicians as dual nationals ridiculous.

  • Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares some beautiful photos of Saint-Tropez.

  • Arnold Zwicky meditates on language, moving from the strange names of the parts of flowers to the X-Men.

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  • Watery worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, in one scenario, tend to see their volatiles evaporate into space quickly.

  • Gaps in debris disks orbiting young stars seem to point to the existence of planets in these gaps.

  • The proposed Project Blue--a space-based telescope capable of imaging planets at Alpha Centauri--sounds good to me.

  • Kepler-1625 b-i, a strong candidate to be the first exomoon found, seems to have a fascinating history.

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  • Anthrodendum takes a look at the way community knowledge is now being subject to a privatization.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlyn Kelly starts a discussion about what makes home.

  • Bruce Dorminey suggests a pre-Theia, Moon-sized impactor gave the Earth its metal crust.

  • The Dragon's Gaze looks at the current state of knowledge about Proxima b.

  • The Dragon's Tales notes that Russia is apparently testing advanced nuclear weapons.

  • The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas considers the religious impulse in so many technophiles' view of the world.

  • Language Hat considers the dynamics associated with learning minority languages in Europe.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a classic traffic safety clip from 1913.

  • The LRB Blog mourns the loss of Glen Newey, long-time contributor.

  • Lovesick Cyborg notes a NASA study into the economics of a viable space-based solar power project.

  • Roads and Kingdoms takes a look at the açorda of Portugal, a bread-based broth that was a long-time food of the poor.

  • Cheri Lucas Rowlands celebrates the passage of summer into fall through photos of her vegetable garden.

  • Drew Rowsome takes a look at the representation of LGBTQ people on television, and sees much reason for cheer.

  • Science Sushi notes that different dolphin groups seem to have different dialects.

  • Understanding Society takes a look at Robert Merton's refinement of social functionalism.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that many ethnic Russians in Belarus, as in Ukraine, have shifted identity to that of the titular nation.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes one mistake made about artificial intelligence: it is not automatically more accurate.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the discovery of activity on distant comet
    C/2017 K2.

  • Centauri Dreams notes a new proposal for an orbital telescope that could detect Earth-like worlds at Alpha Centauri A and B.

  • D-Brief notes a new research finding that chimpanzees can learn to use tools on their own, without teaching.

  • Dangerous Minds notes the interesting Detroit character of Gundella, the Green Witch of Detroit.

  • Language Log tries to decipher some garbled Hebrew at an American wedding.

  • The LRB Blog looks at the continued aftershocks, social and otherwise, from the recent earthquake in Mexico.

  • Marginal Revolution argues that North Korea is set to become more China's problem than the United States'.

  • Roads and Kingdoms notes the simple pleasures of soy milk in China.

  • Seriously Science notes a study looking at the different factors in the personalities of cats.

  • Towleroad notes the recent discovery of an antibody effective against 99% or so variants of HIV.

  • Window on Eurasia argues Russian politics play a central role in getting Russophones in Ukraine to become Ukrainian.

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  • National Geographic reports on how, unchecked, global warming may wreck the coffee industry of Uganda.

  • Aeon notes the nervous system of the ctenophore, product of a separate evolutionary process from our own.

  • Phys.org describes a recent study suggesting Easter Island was not wrecked by ecocide. (The Rapanui were devastated by others, I would add.)

  • Even with an active magnetic field, an Earth-like atmosphere of Proxima Centauri b might be eroded away by flares. Universe Today reports on the climate model making this prediction.

  • Does bizarre Przybylski’s star, HD 101065, contain exotic superheavy elements in its atmosphere? New Scientist wonders.

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  • Centauri Dreams looks at the potentially deadly effect of the stellar flares of red dwarfs on potentially habitable exoplanets.

  • Charley Ross notes the strange 1957 disappearance of William ad Margaret Patterson from their Texas home.

  • D-Brief notes the evidence for a second planet at Proxima Centauri, a super-Earth Proxima C with a 215 day orbit.

  • Tom Yulsman of ImaGeo shares shares photos of the active Sun.

  • The argument made by Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns and Money that Americans were learning to love Obamacare and Republicans wanted to take it away before they got used to it ... well.

  • Marginal Revolution notes that, and why, restaurant servers in Maine wanted their minimum wage lowered. (Tips.)

  • Roads and Kingdoms shares the story of Na De Fo, a rare Korean restaurant in Mexico City.

  • The NYR Daily looks at how Macron might try to "California-ize" France, and whether he could pull this off.

  • Unicorn Booty notes studies noting bisexuals have a lower quality of life than gays, and wonders why. (Stigma is an issue.)

  • Window on Eurasia notes that global warming, by leading to permafrost melt, is literally undermining the infrastructure of Russia.

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  • The CBC u>notes the consensus that the new Ontario minimum wage will not hurt the economy, overall, but provide a mild boost.

  • The Toronto Star notes that, from 2019, analog television broadcasts will start ramping down.

  • The Toronto Star notes that high prices in Ontario's cottage country are causing the market to expand to new areas.

  • Gizmodo reports on one study suggesting that Proxima Centauri b does have the potential to support Earth-like climates.

  • Gizmodo notes one study speculating on the size of Mars' vanished oceans.

  • Quartz reports on how one community in Alaska and one community in Louisiana are facing serious pressures from climate change and from the political reaction to said.

  • CBC notes an oil platform leaving Newfoundland for the oceans.

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  • James Bow calls for an end to the US-Canada Safe Third Country agreement prohibiting people coming from American soil from claiming refugee status in Canada.

  • D-Brief reports on the vast array of man-made minerals appearing in what is now being called the Anthropocene Era of Earth.

  • Dangerous Minds notes the efforts of the Disco Preservation Society to preserve DJ mixes from 1980s San Francisco.

  • Language Log takes issue with Neil DeGrasse Tyson's argument that cryptographers, not linguists, would be needed in Arrival.

  • The LRB Blog notes impunity for murderers of civil society activists in Honduras.

  • Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen talks about Joyce Gladwell's autobiography Brown Face, Big Master.

  • The NYRB Daily celebrates the work of Hercules Segers.

  • The Planetary Society Blog is skeptical of the Space X plan to send tourists past the Moon by 2018.

  • Supernova Condensate lists 8 things we know about Proxima Centauri b.

  • Towleroad reports on new walking tours being offered of gay London.

  • Arnold Zwicky engages with a California exhibition comparing paintings with movies.

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  • blogTO notes that the redevelopment of Toronto's Port Lands is continuing.

  • Crooked Timber argues that climate denialism exposes the socially constructed nature of property rights.

  • D-Brief notes the reburial of Kennewick Man.

  • The Dragon's Gaze notes there is no sign of a second planet around Proxima Centauri.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at life in Texas.

  • The LRB Blog analyzes Milo's stumble.

  • Marginal Revolution considers the levels of disorderliness different societies, like Sweden, can tolerate.

  • The NYRB Daily reports on the poisoning of a Russian dissident.

  • The Planetary Society Blog suggests Voyager 1 picked up Enceladus' plumes.

  • Peter Rukavina writes of his mapping of someone's passage on the Camino Francés.

  • Supernova Condensate looks at the United Arab Emirates' plan to build a city on Mars in a century.

  • Torontoist reported on a protest demanding action on the overdose crisis.
  • Towleroad describes the plight of Mr. Gay Syria in Istanbul and reports on the progress of same-sex marriage in Finland.

  • Understanding Society considers the complexity of managing large technological projects.

  • Window on Eurasia links to one Russian writer arguing Putin should copy Trump and links to anotehr suggesting the Russian Orthodox Church is overreaching.

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  • Centauri Dreams looks at ongoing research into the sizes of Alpha Centauri A and B.

  • Dangerous Minds notes Finland's introduction of a new Tom of Finland emoji.

  • The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper speculating as to the fate of icy dwarf exoplanets in white dwarf systems.

  • The Dragon's Tales reports on the intensification of the war in Ukraine's Donbas.

  • The Everyday Sociology Blog asks readers how they study.

  • Language Log looks at the structure of yes-no questions in Chinese.

  • The NYRB Daily looks at the consequences of the Trump travel ban.

  • The Planetary Society Blog considers impact craters as potential abodes for life.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer does not quite understand renters' fears about new developments in their neighbourhoods.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy considers the court ruling against Trump's refugee order.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests prospects for long-term economic growth in Russia have collapsed, and notes the sharp fall in real incomes in Asian Russia.

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