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Architectuul profiles architectural photographer Lorenzo Zandri, here.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes a new study suggesting red dwarf stars, by far the most common stars in the universe, have plenty of planets.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares 11 tips for interviewers, reminding me of what I did for anthropology fieldwork.

Centauri Dreams notes how water ice ejected from Enceladus makes the inner moons of Saturn brilliant.

The Crux looks at the increasingly complicated question of when the first humans reached North America.

D-Brief notes a new discovery suggesting the hearts of humans, unlike the hearts of other closely related primates, evolved to require endurance activities to remain healthy.

Dangerous Minds shares with its readers the overlooked 1969 satire Putney Swope.

The Dragon's Tales notes that the WFIRST infrared telescope has passed its first design review.

Gizmodo notes how drought in Spain has revealed the megalithic Dolmen of Guadalperal for the first time in six decades.

io9 looks at the amazing Jonathan Hickman run on the X-Men so far, one that has established the mutants as eye-catching and deeply alien.

Joe. My. God. notes that the Pentagon has admitted that 2017 UFO videos do, in fact, depict some unidentified objects in the air.

JSTOR Daily looks at the origin of the equestrian horseback statue in ancient Rome.

Language Log shares a bilingual English/German pun from Berlin.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reflects on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson at Jefferson's grave.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution looks at a new book arguing, contra Pinker perhaps, that the modern era is one of heightened violence.

The New APPS Blog seeks to reconcile the philosophy of Hobbes with that of Foucault on biopower.

Strange Company shares news clippings from 1970s Ohio about a pesky UFO.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why the idea of shooting garbage from Earth into the sun does not work.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps explains the appearance of Brasilia on a 1920s German map: It turns out the capital was nearly realized then.

Towleroad notes that Pete Buttigieg has taken to avoiding reading LGBTQ media because he dislikes their criticism of his gayness.

Arnold Zwicky looks at diners and changing menus and slavery.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports suggestions the bizarre happenings at Boyajian's Star could be explained by an evaporating exomoon.

Centauri Dreams looks at how the crowdsourced evScope telescope is being used to support the Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojans.

The Crux explains the phenomenon of misophobia.

D-Brief shares suggestions that an asteroid collision a half-billion years ago released clouds of dust that, reaching Earth, triggered the mid-Ordovician ice age.

Dangerous Minds shares video of a perhaps underwhelming meeting of William Burroughs with Francis Bacon.

io9 makes the case for more near-future space exploration movies like Ad Astra.

Joe. My. God. notes a Trump retweeting of the lie that Ilham Omar celebrated on 9/11.

JSTOR Daily notes how fire could destroy the stressed rainforest of the Amazon.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how few judges in the US have been impeached.

The LRB Blog looks at how the already tenuous position of Haitians in the Bahamas has been worsened by Dorian.

The Map Room Blog looks at the importance of the integrity of official maps in the era of Trump.

Marginal Revolution looks at the political importance of marriage ceremonies in Lebanon and Gaza.

Drew Rowsome interviews the Zakar Twins on the occasion of their new play Pray the Gay Away, playing in Toronto in October.

The Russian Demographic Blog shares statistics on birthrates in the different provinces of the Russian Empire circa 1906.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the first experiment done on the photoelectric effect, revealing quantum mechanics.

Window on Eurasia looks at growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Central Asia.

Arnold Zwicky looks at "The Hurtful Dog", a Cyanide and Happiness cartoon.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares images of Jupiter, imaged in infrared by ALMA.

Centauri Dreams looks at ocean upwelling on one class of super-habitable exoplanet.

D-Brief looks at how the Komodo dragon survived the threat of extinction.

Far Outliers reports on a mid-19th century slave raid in the Sahel.

Gizmodo notes that the secret US Air Force spaceplane, the X-37B, has spent two years in orbit. (Doing what?)

JSTOR Daily looks at the economic underpinnings of medieval convents.

Dave Brockington writes at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the continuing meltdown of the British political system in the era of Brexit, perhaps even of British democracy.

The LRB Blog looks at the impact of Brexit on the Common Travel Area.

Marginal Revolution reports on how Poland has tried to deter emigration by removing income taxes on young workers.

Carole Naggar writes at the NYR Daily about the photography of women photographers working for LIFE, sharing examples of their work.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why time has to be a dimension of the universe, alongside the three of space.

Frank Jacobs of Strange Maps shares NASA images of the forest fires of Amazonia.

Window on Eurasia notes that many Russophones of Ukraine are actually strongly opposed to Russia, contrary Russian stereotypes of language determining politics.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at the German city of Nordlingen, formed in a crater created by the impact of a binary asteroid with Earth.

Centauri Dreams reports on the possibility that the farside of the Moon might bear the imprint of an ancient collision with a dwarf planet the size of Ceres.

D-Brief notes that dredging for the expansion of the port of Miami has caused terrible damage to corals there.

Dangerous Minds looks at the last appearances of David Bowie and Iggy Pop together on stage.

The Dragon's Tales notes that China is on track to launch an ambitious robotic mission to Mars in 2020.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog talks about what sociological research actually is.

Gizmodo reports on the discovery of a torus of cool gas circling Sagittarius A* at a distance of a hundredth of a light-year.

io9 reports about Angola Janga, an independent graphic novel by Marcelo D'Salete showing how slaves from Africa in Brazil fought for their freedom and independence.

The Island Review shares some poems of Matthew Landrum, inspired by the Faroe Islands.

Joe. My. God. looks at how creationists are mocking flat-earthers for their lack of scientific knowledge.

Language Hat looks at the observations of Mary Beard that full fluency in ancient Latin is rare even for experts, for reason I think understandable.

Melissa Byrnes wrote at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the meaning of 4 June 1989 in the political transitions of China and Poland.

Marginal Revolution notes how the New York Times has become much more aware of cutting-edge social justice in recent years.

The NYR Daily looks at how the memories and relics of the Sugar Land prison complex outside of Houston, Texas, are being preserved.

Jason C Davis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at the differences between LightSail 1 and the soon-to-be-launched LightSail 2.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks in detail at the high electricity prices in Argentina.

Peter Rukavina looks at the problems with electric vehicle promotion on PEI.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at when the universe will have its first black dwarf. (Not in a while.)

Window on Eurasia suggests that Belarusians are not as interested in becoming citizens of Russia as an Internet poll suggests.

Arnold Zwicky highlights a Pride Month cartoon set in Antarctica featuring the same-sex marriage of two penguins.

Architectuul notes the recent death of I.M. Pei.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes what, exactly, rubble-pile asteroids are.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about definitions of home.

Centauri Dreams considers white dwarf planets.

The Crux notes how ultra-processed foods are liked closely to weight gain.

D-Brief observes that a thin layer of insulating ice might be saving the subsurface oceans of Pluto from freezing out.

Bruce Dorminey notes the critical role played by Apollo 10 in getting NASA ready for the Moon landings.

The Dragon's Tales notes the American government's expectation that China will seek to set up its own global network of military bases.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina reports on the Soviet Union's Venera 5 and 6 missions to Venus.

Far Outliers looks at the visit of U.S. Grant to Japan and China.

Gizmodo notes a recent analysis of Neanderthal teeth suggesting that they split with Homo sapiens at a date substantially earlier than commonly believed.

io9 notes the sheer scale of the Jonathan Hickman reboots for the X-Men comics of Marvel.

Joe. My. God. shares the argument of Ted Cruz that people should stop making fun of his "space pirate" suggestion.I am inclined to think Cruz more right than not, actually.

JSTOR Daily notes the wave of anti-black violence that hit the United States in 1919, often driven by returned veterans.

Language Hat shares a recognizable complaint, written in ancient Akkadian, of bad customers.

Language Log shares a report of a village in Brittany seeking people to decipher a mysterious etching.

This Scott Lemieux report at Lawyers, Guns and Money about how British conservatives received Ben Shapiro is a must-read summary.

Benjamin Markovits at the LRB Blog shares the reasons why he left his immigrant-heavy basketball team in Germany.

Marginal Revolution looks at one effort in Brazil to separate people from their street gangs.

The NYR Daily looks at how ISIS, deprived of its proto-state, has managed to thrive as a decentralized network.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw tells of his experiences and perceptions of his native region of New England, in southeastern Australia.

The Planetary Society Blog notes how the Chang'e 4 rover may have found lunar mantle on the surface of the Moon.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that while Argentine president Mauricio Macri is polling badly, his opponents are not polling well.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of things to do in see in the Peru capital of Lima.

The Signal examines how the Library of Congress engages in photodocumentation.

Van Waffle at the Speed River Journal explains how he is helping native insects by planting native plants in his garden.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how scientific illiteracy should never be seen as cool.

Towleroad notes the questions of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as to why Truvada costs so much in the United States.

Window on Eurasia notes how family structures in the North Caucasus are at once modernizing and becoming more conservative.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes how the distribution of US carriers and their fleets at present does not support the idea of a planned impending war with Iran.

Arnold Zwicky examines the tent caterpillar of California.

The shameful cuts to the Ontario public library system speak volumes about the attitude of Doug Ford towards education. The Toronto Star reports.

Will this spring's flooding change the relationship of people in Québec to waterways like the St. Lawrence? CTV reports.
That the failures of infrastructure of Pacific Gas and Electric can be linked to so many catastrophic wildfires in California, and that nothing has been done despite this, shocks me. VICE reports.

This Olivia Nuzzi profile of Pete Buttigieg and his presidential campaign at New York Magazine makes me like him all the more.

This Open Democracy analysis of the amendment to the constitution of Brazil that sharply limits government expenditures, requiring unthinking austerity for the next two decades, is compelling.

Architectuul features a photo essay made by Evan Panagopoulos in the course of a hurried three-hour visit to the Socialist Modernist and modern highlights of 20th century Kiev architecture.

Bad Astrronomer Phil Plait notes how the latest planet found in the Kepler-47 circumbinary system evokes Tatooine.

Centauri Dreams looks at tide and radiation, and their impacts on potential habitability, in the TRAPPIST-1 system.

Citizen Science Salon looks at how the TV show Cyberchase can help get young people interested in science and math.

Crooked Timber mourns historian David Brion Davis.

The Crux looks at how the HMS Challenger pioneered the study of the deeps of the oceans, with that ship's survey of the Mariana Trench.

D-Brief looks at how a snowball chamber using supercooled water can be used to hunt for dark matter.

Earther shares photos of the heartbreaking and artificial devastation of the Amazonian rainforest of Brazil.

Gizmodo shares a beautiful Hubble photograph of the southern Crab Nebula.

Information is Beautiful shares a reworked version of the Julia Galef illustration of the San Francisco area meme space.

io9 notes that, fresh from being Thor, Jane Foster is set to become a Valkyrie in a new comic.

JSTOR Daily explains the Victorian fondness for leeches, in medicine and in popular culture.

Language Hat links to an interview with linguist Amina Mettouchi, a specialist in Berber languages.

Language Log shares the report of a one-time Jewish refugee on changing language use in Shanghai, in the 1940s and now.

Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the horror of self-appointed militias capturing supposed undocumented migrants in the southwestern US.

Marginal Revolution reports on the circumstances in which volunteer militaries can outperform conscript militaries.

At the NYR Daily, Christopher Benfey reports on the surprisingly intense connection between bees and mourning.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw, responding to Israel Folau, considers free expression and employment.

The Planetary Society Blog shares a guest post from Barney Magrath on the surprisingly cheap adaptations needed to make an iPhone suitable for astrophotography.

Peter Rukavina reports on the hotly-contested PEI provincial election of 1966.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains what the discovery of helium hydride actually means.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little praises the Jill Lepore US history These Truths for its comprehensiveness.

Window on Eurasia reports on the growing divergences in demographics between different post-Soviet countries.

Arnold Zwicky starts with another Peeps creation and moves on from there.

Bad Astronomy notes how the occultation of distant stars by nearby asteroids can help astronomers determine stars' size.

D-Brief notes the remarkable achievements of some scientists in reviving the brains of pigs hours after their death.

Dangerous Minds takes a look at how David Bowie got involved in The Man Who Fell To Earth.

Dead Things looks at the recent identification of the late Cretaceous dinosaur Gobihadros.

Bruce Dorminey notes that astronomers have determined an interstellar meteorite likely hit the Earth in 2014.

Gizmodo reports on a very dim L-dwarf star 250 light-years away, ULAS J224940.13−011236.9, that experienced a massive flare. How did it do it?

Hornet Stories shares some vintage photos of same-sex couples from generations ago being physically affectionate.

At The Island Review, Nancy Forde writes about motherhood and her experience on Greenland, in the coastal community of Ilulissat.

JSTOR Daily notes how Paris' Notre-Dame has always been in a process of recreation.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, and Money notes the continuing oppression of workers in Bangladesh.

The LRB Blog notes the flaws in the defense, and in the political thinking, of Julian Assange. (Transparency is not enough.)

The NYR Daily reports on how photographer Claudia Andujar has regarded the Yanomami as they face existential challenges.

The Planetary Society Blog traces the crash of Beresheet on the Moon to a software conflict.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy warns against the idea of inevitable moral progress.

Window on Eurasia notes the desires of some Russian conservatives to see Russia included in a European Union dominated by neo-traditionalists.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how the dinosaurs seem to have been killed off 65 million years ago by a combination of geological and astronomical catastrophes.

Centauri Dreams examines Kepler 1658b, a hot Jupiter in a close orbit around an old star.

The Crux reports on the continuing search for Planet Nine in the orbits of distant solar system objects.

D-Brief notes how researchers have begun to study the archaeological records of otters.

Cody Delistraty profiles author and journalist John Lanchester.

Far Outliers reports on the terrible violence between Hindus and Muslims preceding partition in Calcutta.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing suggests the carnival of the online world, full of hidden work, is actually an unsatisfying false carnival.

Hornet Stories reports that São Paulo LGBTQ cultural centre and homeless shelter Casa 1 is facing closure thanks to cuts by the homophobic new government.

io9 reports on one fan's attempt to use machine learning to produce a HD version of Deep Space Nine.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the increasing trend, at least in the United States and the United Kingdom, to deport long-term residents lacking sufficiently secure residency rights.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the literally medieval epidemics raging among the homeless of California.

Marginal Revolution considers how the Book of Genesis can be read as a story of increasing technology driving improved living standards and economic growth.

The NYR Daily interviews Lénaïg Bredoux about #MeToo in France.

The Planetary Society Blog considers the subtle differences in colour between ice giants Uranus and Neptune, one greenish and the other a blue, and the causes of this difference.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle shares beautiful photos of ice on a stream as he talks about his creative process.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers what the universe was like back when the Earth was forming.

Window on Eurasia reports on a statement made by the government of Belarus that the survival of the Belarusian language is a guarantor of national security.

Arnold Zwicky was kind enough to share his handout for the semiotics gathering SemFest20.

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.

The Crux notes the discovery of a second impact crater in Greenland, hidden under the ice.

D-Brief notes new evidence that ancient Celts did, in fact, decapitate their enemies and preserve their heads.

Far Outliers notes how Pakhtun soldier Ayub Khan, in 1914-1915, engaged in some cunning espionage for the British Empire on the Western Front.

Kashmir Hill at Gizmodo notes how cutting out the big five tech giants for one week--Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft--made it almost impossible for her to carry on her life.

Hornet Stories notes that, unsurprisingly, LGBTQ couples are much more likely to have met online that their heterosexual counterparts.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox imagines Elizabeth Warren giving a speech that touches sensitively and intelligently on her former beliefs in her Cherokee ancestry.

Mónica Belevan at the Island Review writes, directly and allegorically, about the Galapagos Islands and her family and Darwin.

JSTOR Daily looks at the economics of the romance novel.

Language Hat notes the Mandombe script creating by the Kimbanguist movement in Congo.

Harry Stopes at the LRB Blog notes the problem with Greater Manchester Police making homeless people a subject of concern.

Ferguson activists, the NYR Daily notes, are being worn down by their protests.

Roads and Kingdoms lists some things visitors to the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent should keep in mind.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes a case for supersymmetry being a failed prediction.

Towleroad notes the near-complete exclusion of LGBTQ subjects and themes from schools ordered by Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro.

Window on Eurasia notes a somewhat alarmist take on Central Asian immigrant neighbourhoods in Moscow.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the Kurds, their history, and his complicated sympathy for their concerns.

CityLab notes what I think is a perfectly sensible plan in St. Louis, Missouri, to fuse city and county into one unit to allow for better regional governance.

A project in Port Moody aiming to let people get condos through a rent-to-own scheme is massively oversubscribed. Global News reports.

This essay in the Guardian notes the extent to which austerity in the United Kingdom has hit northern cities like Liverpool particularly badly.

CityLab notes the influence of architect Oscar Niemeyer on the urban landscapes of Brazil, particularly but not only in Rio de Janeiro.

Guardian Cities looks at the impressive scope of the plan to turn the Sichuan city of Chengdu into a garden city. What of the human cost of this transformation?

The reopening of Bellevue House, the old Kingston home of John A. MacDonald, has been delayed by Parks Canada. Global News reports.

MTL Blog shares a video taken by two people who visited each and every one of the nearly 70 stops of the Montréal subway system in just four hours.The mayors of Reynosa in Mexico and McAllen in the United States, sister cities on the Texas frontier, oppose policies and structures that would divide their binational community. VICE reports.

Guardian Cities reports on the difficulties of getting accessible Internet for many in Sao Paulo.

Guardian Cities looks on how Dar es Salaam, the emerging megacity of Tanzania, has developed an affordable and rapid bus system.

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.

The Strand bookstore in New York City is seeking to avoid being granted heritage status, in order to avoid the complications which could drive it out of business. The Guardian reports.

The City of Edmonton, post-2014, will not regain previous levels of per capita wealth until the 2030s. The Edmonton Journal reports.

Henry Wismayer has a heart-felt essay at Medium talking about how a London plunged into the heart of a turbo-charged capitalism is becoming increasingly inhospitable for the non-rich. Grenfell Tower beckons on the horizon.

Guardian Cities shares photos of the homes taken over by squatters in Rio de Janeiro.

The National, from the UAE, praises the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa as not just a regional hub but as a worthy tourist destination in its own right.

Anthrodendum hosts a guest essay by a Brazilian anthropologist looking at how, over centuries, the trope of cannibalism has appeared in everything from the first European travel narratives to contemporary politics.

Hornet Stories reports on how Ryan Murphy has started a campaign to improve the representation of, among others, people of colour and queer people in Hollywood.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox uses the closure of a Wichita café to examine the broader threat to the commons, to the shared spaces of community.

JSTOR Daily shares seven interesting facts about cranberries.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money takes issue with self-serve checkouts.

The LRB Blog notes the political, and general, decline of French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell draws connections between uncontrolled health care industry costs in the United States and Brexit.

D-Brief notes that, with the Dawn probe unresponsive, its mission to Vesta and Ceres is now over.

The Dragon's Tales reports that NASA is seeking commercial partners to deliver cargo to the proposed Gateway station.

JSTOR Daily looks back to a time where chestnuts were a staple food in Appalachia.

Language Log takes a look at prehistoric words in Eurasia for honey, in Indo-European and Old Sinitic.

Joy Katz at the LRB Blog writes about her lived experience of the conventional Pittsburgh neighbourhood of Squirrel Hill, a perhaps unlikely scene of tragedy.

The Map Room Blog links to an interactive map showing the Québec election results.

Marginal Revolution links to that New York Magazine article about young people who do not vote to start a discussion.

Roads and Kingdoms looks at the real dangers faced by Venezuelan refugees in the northern Brazilian state of Roraima, at the start of the era of Bolsonaro.

Window on Eurasia argues that changes to the Russian census allowing people to identify with multiple ethnicities could lead to a sharp shrinking in the numbers of minority nationalities.

Centauri Dreams notes the hope of the controllers of Hayabusa2 to collect samples from asteroid Ryugu.

D-Brief takes a look at how ecologists in Hawaii are using bird song to encourage invasive species of birds to eat local plants.

Bruce Dorminey notes preliminary findings of astronomers suggesting that stars with relatively low amounts of metals might be more likely to produce potentially habitable Earth-size worlds.

The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas considers what, exactly, it means for a technology to be considered "neutral".

At JSTOR Daily, Hope Reese interviews historian Jill Lepore about the crisis facing American institutions in the 21st century. Is there a way forward?

Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the ongoing catastrophe in Yemen, aggravated terribly by Saudi intervention and supported by the West.

Andrew Brownie at the LRB Blog notes how soccer in Brazil, producing stars against dictatorship like Sócrates in the early 1980s, now produces pro-Bolsonario figures.

The NYR Daily notes the resistance of the Bedouin of al-Khan al-Ahmar to resist their displacement by Israeli bulldozers.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how, among other things, extreme temperature swings make the Moon an unsuitable host for most observatories apart from radio telescopes.

Window on Eurasia notes the sheer scale of Russian immigration to Crimea after 2014, the number of migrants amounting to a fifth of the peninsula's population.

This sad SCMP article takes a look at the struggles of North Korean defectors on arriving in South Korea, a competitive society with its own values alien to them.

This Open Democracy book review asks what went wrong in eastern Europe, that illiberalism became so popular. (Of note, I think, is the suggestion that Western definitions have changed substantially since the 1990s.)

The rise, in the person of Bolsonario, of fascism in Brazil is the subject of this stirring Open Democracy feature.

This New York Times opinion piece by an Irish woman living in England touches upon the ways in which Brexiteers' blithe dismissal of Ireland and Irish needs are starting to make many 21st century Irish angry with their eastern neighbour, again.

MacLean's notes how the legalization of marijuana in Canada came about as a consequence of the recognition by Justin Trudeau of the unfairness of the old regime.

{anthro}dendum reads the recent Sokal Square project as satire.

Architectuul takes a look at an ingenious floating school, in an artificial pond at Berlin's Tempelhof airport.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes an in-depth look at the possibility of moons having moons. What does the lack of such worlds in our solar system, despite possible spaces for their existence, say about their presence in the wider universe?

Larry Klaes at Centauri Dreams takes a look at The Farthest, a recent film examining the Voyager probes.

The Crux looks at Georges Lemaître, the Belgian Jesuit and physicist who first imagined the Big Bang.

D-Brief notes that scientists have successfully created healthy mice using the genomes of two same-sex parents.

Gizmodo notes that new computer models of pulsars have revealed unexpected new elements of their behaviour.

JSTOR Daily interviews Alexander Chee, who tells about how the JSTOR database helped him write his novel The Queen of the Night.

Marginal Revolution notes a Ukrainian bank that offers high-interest savings accounts to people who, as measured by app, walk at least 10 thousand steps a day.

The NYR Daily profiles Jair Bolsonario, the likely next Brazilian president arguably because of his fondness for the military regimes of old, and what his success says about the failings of democracy in Brazil.

Window on Eurasia notes how the impending recognition of a national Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Ecumenical Patriarch will have global repercussions, being a victory for Ukraine and a major loss for Russia.

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