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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares images of galaxy M61.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at a proposal for the Solar Cruiser probe, a NASA probe that would use a solar sail.

  • D-Brief notes the discovery of bacteria on coasts which manufacture dimethyl sulfide.

  • Bruce Dorminey writes about some facts about the NASA X-15 rocket plane.

  • The Dragon's Tales reports on the strange nuclear accident in Nyonoksa, Russia.

  • JSTOR Daily reports on the recent uncovering of the ancient Egyptian city of Heracleion, under the Mediterranean.

  • Language Hat looks at 19th century standards on ancient Greek language.

  • Language Log notes an ironically swapped newspaper article subhead.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the role of Tom Cotton in the recent Greenland scandal.

  • Marginal Revolution glances at the relationship between China and Singapore.

  • The NYR Daily looks at how the car ride played a role in the writing of Jacques Lacan.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog shares an index on state fragility around the world.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why Jupiter suffers so many impacts from incoming bodies.

  • John Scalzi at Whatever reports on what seems to have been an enjoyable concert experience with Iron Maiden.

  • Window on Eurasia reports a claim that, with regards to a border dispute, Chechnya is much more unified than Dagestan.

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  • Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares Johannes Kroeger's image of the median Earth.

  • The Crux considers when human societies began to accumulate large numbers of aged people. Would there have been octogenarians in any Stone Age cultures, for instance?

  • The Dragon's Tales considers Russia's strategy in Southeast Asia.

  • Alexandra Samuel at JSTOR Daily notes that one way to fight against fake news is for people to broaden their friends networks beyond their ideological sympathizers.

  • Language Log, noting a television clip from Algeria in which a person defend their native dialect versus standard Arabic, compares the language situation in the Arab world to that of China.

  • Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen explains how the Tervuren Central African museum in Brussels has not been decolonized.

  • The Planetary Society Blog explores the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why, in current physics, the multiverse must exist.

  • Strange Company explores the strange disappearance, in the Arizona desert in 1952, of a young couple. Their plane was found and in perfect condition, but what happened to them?

  • Strange Maps reports on the tragic migration of six Californian raptors, only one of which managed to make it to its destination.

  • Towleroad reports on the appearance of actor and singer Ben Platt on The Ellen Show, talking about his career and coming out.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the apparently widespread mutual dislike of Chechens and Muscovites.

  • Arnold Zwicky considers the French Impressionist artists Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Suzanne Valadon, with images of their art.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the remarkable amount of information produced by a study of globular clusters in the Coma cluster of galaxies.

  • Crooked Timber notes the decision of British prosecutors to charge the Stansted 15, people who prevented a flight from taking off with reject asylum claimants, with terrorism-related offenses.

  • The Crux notes some of the remarkable evolutionary tricks that let different insects develop ears and the sense of hearing.

  • D-Brief notes that the Voyager 2 probe has exited the heliosphere, arguably leaving the solar system.

  • L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing notes how digital media accentuate the modern world's fragmentation and exhaustion of time.

  • Information is Beautiful shares the results of this year's Information is Beauty awards, sharing all sorts of impressive data visualization products including the winner.

  • JSTOR Daily notes some lessons about monks' organization of time; productivity improvements, with better technology, were used not to increase production but rather to free up time for other uses.

  • Language Hat links to a BBC article noting the potential that machine translation offers for the understanding of Sumerian cuneiform tablets, most of which are untranslated.

  • Rose Jacobs at Lingua Franca announces that, after years of operation, this blog will be closed before the end of the month.

  • The Planetary Society Blog's Jason Davis announces that the OSIRIS-REx probe has detected water on asteroid 101955 Bennu.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes the death of his Canadian relative, the anthropologist Cyril Belshaw.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why we have not yet found Earth analog planets.

  • Window on Eurasia notes how the leadership of Chechnya has been criticizing neighbouring Dagestan for its treatment of Chechens there.

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  • In a guest post at Antipope, researcher and novelist Heather Child writes about the extent to which Big Data has moved from science fiction to reality.

  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the very recent discovery of a massive crater buried under the ice of Greenland, one that may have impacted in the human era and altered world climate. Are there others like it?

  • Crooked Timber responds to the Brexit proposal being presented to the British parliament. Is this it?

  • D-Brief notes the discovery of the unusually large and dim, potentially unexplainable, dwarf galaxy Antlia 2 near the Milky Way Galaxy.

  • Gizmodo notes that the size of mysterious 'Oumuamua was overestimated.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the life and achievements of Polish-born scholar Jósef Czapski, a man who miraculously survived the Soviet massacre of Polish officers at Katyn.

  • At the LRB Blog, Ken Kalfus writes about his father's experience owning a drycleaner in a 1960s complex run by the Trump family.

  • Marginal Revolution starts a discussion over a recent article in The Atlantic claiming that there has been a sharp drop-off in the sex enjoyed by younger people in the United States (and elsewhere?).

  • At Roads and Kingdoms, T.M. Brown shares a story of the crazy last night of his bartending days in Manhattan's Alphabet City.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel imagines what the universe would have been like during its youth, during peak star formation.

  • Strange Maps' Frank Jacobs takes a look at different partition plans for the United States, aiming to split the country into liberal and conservative successor states.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that some Ingush, after noting the loss of some border territories to neighbouring Chechnya, fear they might get swallowed up by their larger, culturally related, neighbours.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alexander Harrowell predicts that there will not be enough Tory MPs in the United Kingdom willing to topple Theresa May over the Brexit deal.

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  • Centauri Dreams takes a look at how new technology makes access to deep-sky astronomical images easier than ever, allowing for the recovery of more data.

  • The Crux considers the factors that make humans so inclined to believe in the existence of god and the supernatural, including our pattern-recognition skills.

  • D-Brief sharesa the latest research into the origins of the atmospheric haze of Titan.

  • Todd Schoepflin at the Everyday Sociology Blog has an intriguing post performing ethnography on the fans of the Buffalo Bills.

  • At A Fistful of Euros, Alexander Harrowell notes one thing to take from the elections in Bavaria is the remarkable strength of the Greens, nearing the CDU/CSU nationally.

  • io9 shares the delightful Alien-themed maternity photos of a British Columbia couple.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at contesting visions of motherhood among American feminists in the 1960s and 1970s.

  • Language Hat reports on "The Midnight Court", a poem written in the 19th century in a now-extinct dialect of Irish.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes one astounding possible defense of Saudi Arabia faced with Jamal Khashoggi, that his death was accidental.

  • Christine Gordon Manley shares with her readers her words and her photos of Newfoundland's dramatic Signal Hill.

  • The NYR Daily shares the witness of Käthe Kollwitz to the end of the First World War and the German Empire in 1918-1919.

  • Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog criticizes First Man for not showing the excitement of Armstrong and the other Apollo astronauts.

  • Roads and Kingdoms reports on one woman's search for the Korean cornbread remembered by her mother as a Korean War refugee.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares images of some of the most distant objects in the universe images by us so far.

  • Strange Company expands upon the interesting life of early modern English travel writer Thomas Coryat, who indeed does deserve more attention.

  • Window on Eurasia wonders where protests in Ingushetia regarding border changes with Chechnya are going.

  • Arnold Zwicky explores the fable of the forest that identified too closely with the wooden handle of an ax.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at the question of how far, exactly, the Pleiades star cluster is from Earth. It turns out this question breaks down into a lot of interesting secondary issues.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly starts an interesting discussion around the observation that so many people are uncomfortable with the details of their body.

  • Centauri Dreams reports on the exciting evidence of cryovolcanism at Ceres.

  • The Crux reports on new suggestions that, although Neanderthals had bigger brains than Homo sapiens, Neanderthal brains were not thereby better brains.

  • D-Brief notes evidence that the ability of bats and dolphins to echolocate may ultimate derive from a shared gene governing their muscles.

  • Bruce Dorminey notes that astronomers have used data on the trajectory of 'Oumuamua to suggest it may have come from one of four stars.

  • Far Outliers explores the Appalachian timber boom of the 1870s that created the economic preconditions for the famed feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys.

  • Language Hat notes the unique whistling language prevailing among the Khasi people living in some isolated villages in the Indian state of Meghalaya.

  • Lingua Franca, at the Chronicles, notes that the fastest-growing language in the United States is the Indian language of Telugu.

  • Jeremy Harding at the LRB Blog writes about the import of the recognition, by Macron, of the French state's involvement in the murder of pro-Algerian independence activist Maurice Audin in 1958.

  • Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution praises the diaries of Mihail Sebastian, a Romanian Jewish intellectual alive during the Second World War

  • The New APPS Blog takes a look at the concept of the carnival from Bakhtin.

  • Gabrielle Bellot at NYR Daily considers the life of Elizabeth Bishop and Bishop's relationship to loneliness.

  • Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog describes how CubeSats were paired with solar sails to create a Mars probe, Mars Cube One.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers some possible responses from the left to a conservative Supreme Court in the US.

  • Roads and Kingdoms takes a look at the challenges facing the street food of Xi'an.

  • Rocky Planet examines why, for decades, geologists mistakenly believed that the California ground was bulging pre-earthquake in Palmdale.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines how some objects called stars, like neutron stars and white dwarfs and brown dwarfs, actually are not stars.

  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes how China and Europe stand out as being particularly irreligious on a world map of atheism.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the instability that might be created in the North Caucasus by a border change between Chechnya and Ingushetia.

  • Arnold Zwicky shares some beautiful pictures of flowers from a garden in Palo Alto.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait links to a beautiful music video showing highlights of the Moon.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about failure as a learning experience.

  • Centauri Dreams writes about sensory associations, of how memories unite films and planets with things here on Earth.

  • D-Brief notes that Japan's Hayabusa2 probe is looking for a place to land on asteroid Ryugu.

  • Hornet Stories notes the plans of Russell T. Davies to launch a new dramatic series looking at the impact of AIDS in the UK in the 1980s.

  • JSTOR Daily links to a paper suggesting Adam Smith would be unhappy with modern inequality, for the disincentives it provides the wealthy to be productive and not rentiers.

  • The Planetary Society Blog explores what India has to do to meet its goal of launch an astronaut into space by 2022.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that not many worlds--not outer-system moons, not even the Kuiper belt--will survive the sun's red giant phase intact.

  • Window on Eurasia reports on a rebellion of ethnic Russians in Grozny in 1958, protesting the return of the Chechens from Stalinist deportation.

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  • Architetuul considers the architectural potential offered by temporary constructions.

  • Centauri Dreams examines how the latest artificial intelligence routines were used to pick up the faint signal of Kepler-90i.

  • JSTOR Daily examines the sign language used by the deaf servants popular at the Ottoman imperial court.

  • Gizmodo notes that preliminary studies of 'Oumuamua suggest that body is not a technological artifact.

  • Hornet Stories notes the bizarre friendship of Floyd Mayweather with Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the negative effects of NAFTA and globalization on the food eaten by Mexicans.

  • Geoffrey Pullum at Lingua Franca notes the fine line between dialectal differences and language errors.

  • The LRB Blog takes a quick look at corruption in the Russian bid for the World Cup in 2018.

  • The NYR Daily looks at Russian influence behind the Brexit referendum, noting the long-term need of the American and British democracies to adapt.

  • Jake Shears talks with Towleroad about the role that the city of New Orleans has been playing in his life and his creative work.
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  • Anthropology.net notes evidence that injured Neanderthals were cared for by their kin.

  • James Bow shares a photo of Ottawa at night and considers the growing city with its greenbelt.

  • Centauri Dreams reacts to the immense discoveries surrounding GW170817.

  • Crooked Timber considers the vexed nature of the phrase "Judeo-Christian."

  • Bruce Dorminey notes an American government study suggesting a North Korean EMP attack could cause collapse.

  • Hornet Stories reports that Russian pop singer Zelimkhan Bakaev has been murdered in Chechnya as part of the anti-gay purges.

  • Language Hat looks at lunfardo, the Italian-inflicted argot of Buenos Aires.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that, with Trump undermining the US, the prospects of China's rise to define the new world order are looking good.

  • The NYR Daily looks at reports of significant electoral fraud in Kenya.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw looks at the continuing Australian reaction to China's Belt and Road project.

  • Roads and Kingdoms reports from Sichuan's peppercorn fields at harvest time.

  • Drew Rowsome responds to Andrew Pyper's new novel, The Only Child.

  • Strange Company looks at the mysterious 1900 murder of New Yorker Kathryn Scharn.

  • Strange Maps looks at an ingenious, if flawed, map of the Berlin metro dating from the 1920s.

  • Peter Watts considers the question of individual identity over time. What changes, what stays the same?

  • Window on Eurasia notes that a shift from their native languages to Russian will not end minority ethnic identities.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at enormous, explosive Wolf-Rayet stars, and at WR 124 in particular.
  • The Big Picture shares heart-rending photos of Rohingya refugees fleeing Burma.

  • Centauri Dreams considers the potential of near-future robotic asteroid mining.

  • D-Brief notes the discovery of vast cave systems on the Moon, potential homes for settlers.

  • Hornet Stories exposes young children to Madonna's hit songs and videos of the 1980s. She still has it.

  • Inkfish notes that a beluga raised in captivity among dolphins has picked up elements of their speech.

  • Language Hat notes a dubious claim that a stelae containing Luwian hieroglyphic script, from ancient Anatolia, has been translated.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the question of preserving brutalist buildings.

  • The LRB Blog considers how Brexit, intended to enhance British sovereignty and power, will weaken both.

  • The Map Room Blog notes that the moons and planets of the solar system have been added to Google Maps.

  • The NYR Daily considers how the Burmese government is carefully creating a case for Rohingya genocide.

  • The Power and Money's Noel Maurer concludes, regretfully, that the market for suborbital travel is just not there.

  • Visiting a shrimp festival in Louisiana, Roads and Kingdoms considers how the fisheries work with the oil industry (or not).

  • Towleroad reports on the apparent abduction in Chechnya of singer Zelimkhan Bakayev, part of the anti-gay pogrom there.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that rebuilding Kaliningrad as a Russian military outpost will be expensive.

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  • Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes that the most plausible explanation for Tabitha's Star, KIC 8462852, exists in partial eclipses of the star by dust clouds.

  • D-Brief notes that the giant stick insects of Lord Howe Island did survive in their forced diaspora.

  • The Dragon's Gaze takes a look at Kelt-9b, a planet so close to its star that it is literally melting away.

  • Language Hat looks at a website set up by inhabitants of the Faroe Islands to translate Faroese.

  • The LRB Blog shares some of the past appearances of Nobel-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro in the pages of the LRB.

  • Neal Ascherson at the NYR Daily looks at the mechanism of the referendum, in Scotland and Catalonia and elsewhere.

  • The Planetary Society Blog looks at the import of Mike Pence's promise to send Americans to the Moon again.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how the cosmic phenomenon of inflation explains the entire modern universe.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests Chechnya's Ramzan Kadyrov is trying to establish himself as a Russian political figure.

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  • At VICE, Tayte Hanson writes about his experience suffering from body dysmorphia in the gay porn industry.

  • Jeff Leavell, also at VICE, writes compassionately about the gay bar patrons he's seen who have self-medicated much too much.

  • This older Jezebel post, noting shared circumstances made US Muslims more gay-friendly than evangelicals, matters.

  • The latest John Ibbitson article looks at how LGBTQ Chechen refugees in Canada need continued support in their new home.

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  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly re-introduces herself to her readers.

  • Bruce Dorminey shares one man's theory about how extraterrestrials could use exoplanet sightings to build up a galactic communications network.

  • Far Outliers shares some unusual Japanese words, starting with "amepotu" for American potato.

  • Language Hat takes
  • Did the spokeswoman of the NRA threaten to "fisk" the New York Times or threaten something else? Language Log reports.

  • Drew Rowsome notes that, compared to San Francisco, Toronto does not have much of a public kink scene.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines the quantum reasons behind the explosion produced by sodium metal and water.

  • Understanding Society takes rightful issue with The Guardian's shoddy coverage of Dearborn, Michigan, and that city's Muslims and/or Arabs.

  • Unicorn Booty notes that Canada is, at last, starting to take in queer refugees from Chechnya.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the embarrassing support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon for Venezuela. Was opposing the US all he wanted?

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  • Beyond the Beyond notes an image of a wooden model of Babbage's difference engine.

  • James Bow talks about the soundtrack he has made for his new book.

  • Centauri Dreams considers ways astronomers can detect photosynthesis on exoplanets and shares images of Fomalhaut's debris disk.

  • Crooked Timber looks at fidget spinners in the context of discrimination against people with disabilities.

  • D-Brief notes that Boyajian's Star began dimming over the weekend.

  • Far Outliers reports on a 1917 trip by zeppelin to German East Africa.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money argues that there is good reason to be concerned about health issues for older presidential candidates.

  • The NYRB Daily reports on Hungary's official war against Central European University.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog notes the origins of modern immigration to Russia in internal Soviet migration.

  • Savage Minds shares an ethnographer's account of what it is like to look to see her people (the Sherpas of Nepal) described.

  • Strange Maps shares a map speculating as to what the world will look like when it is 4 degrees warmer.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy argues that the US Congress does not have authority over immigration.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests Russia's population will be concentrated around Moscow, compares Chechnya's position vis-à-vis Russia to Puerto Rico's versus the United States, and looks at new Ukrainian legislation against Russian churches and Russian social networks.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes how Evelyn Waugh's writings on the Horn of Africa anticipate the "Friedman unit", the "a measurement of time defined as how long it will take until things are OK in Iraq".

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  • At Antipope, Charlie Stross wonders--among other things--what the Trump Administration is getting done behind its public scandals.

  • blogTO notes a protest in Toronto aiming to get the HBC to drop Ivanka Trump's line of fashion.

  • Dangerous Minds reflects on a Talking Heads video compilation from the 1980s.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money reflects on a murderous attack against Indian immigrants in Kansas.

  • The LRB Blog looks at "post-Internet art".

  • Lovesick Cyborg notes an attack by a suicide robot against a Saudi warship.

  • Strange Maps links to a map of corruption reports in France.

  • Torontoist reports on Winter Stations.

  • Understanding Society engages in a sociological examination of American polarization, tracing it to divides in race and income.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy notes the many good reasons behind the reluctance of cities around the world to host the Olympics.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that where the Ingush have mourned their deportation under Stalin the unfree Chechens have not, reports that Latvians report their willingness to fight for their country, looks at what the spouses of the presidents of post-Soviet states are doing, and notes the widespread opposition in Belarus to paying a tax on "vagrancy."

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at the linguistic markers of the British class system.

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  • At Antipope, Charlie Stross imagines what might become possible with cheap heavy spacelift.

  • blogTO notes the vandalization of the iconic Toronto sign during Nuit Blanche.

  • The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper considering the detectability of interstellar comets.

  • Language Log looks at Chinese language transcriptions for Obama, Hillary, and Trump.

  • Marginal Revolution looks at impending hard Brexit and notes how the economy of Thailand is dominated by Bangkok.

  • The NYRB Daily writes at length about its apparent discovery of the identity of Elena Ferrante.

  • Savage Minds shares a Bolivian perspective on Donald Trump.

  • Strange Maps shares a list of ten potential Jewish homelands outside of Palestine.

  • Window on Eurasia looks at quiet Chechen dissidence and warns about the consequences of Putin's repressions.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell worries about the people soon to be in charge of the United Kingdom's Brexit negotiations.

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  • blogTO notes the growing concentration of chain stores on lower Ossington.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly describes her luck in interviewing a New York City firefighter.

  • Citizen Science Salon reports on a citizen science game intended to fight against Alzheimer's.

  • Language Hat starts from a report about unsold Welsh-language Scrabble games to talk about the wider position of the Welsh language.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money shares the astounding news leaked about Donald Trump's billion-dollar losses.

  • Marginal Revolution links to a psychology paper examining the perception of atheists as narcissistic.

  • Towleroad reports on the informative reality television series of the United States' gay ambassador to Denmark.

  • Window on Eurasia notes how Russia's war in Aleppo echoes past conflicts in Chechnya and Afghanistan, and examines the position of Russia's border regions.

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  • Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton writes about the deep, ineradicable, legacies of the past.

  • The Dragon's Tales looks at China's Shijian-10 reusable satellite.

  • Far Outliers notes the bloody naval tactics of the War of the Spanish Succession and looks at the plight of the post-war English sailors in the Caribbean.

  • Geocurrents explains why Muslims in Tatarstan are much less radicalized than their Chechen counterparts.

  • Language Hat looks at the 2002 Nobel lecture of Imre Kertész.

  • Marginal Revolution misreads talk of Brexit as political theatre.

  • Steve Munro looks at the ability of the TTC to absorb, or not, an influx of money from the federal government.

  • pollotenchegg maps various language minorities in Ukraine.

  • Window on Eurasia wonders if Putin's new National Guard will affect Chechnya's Kadyrov, and wonders if Putin is preparing to strike against oligarchs for the elections.

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  • Keiran Healy suggests much of Apple's opposition to the FBI's demand it decrypt a terrorist's phone has to do with its need to establish itself as a reliable and trustworthy source of hardware.

  • Joe. My. God. notes that WWE wrestler Dave Bautista takes Manny Pacquiao's homophobia poorly.

  • Language Hat links to this 2008 map showing lexical différences between Europe's languages.

  • Language Log notes the politicized position of minority languages in China.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money is unimpressed? with Amitai Etzioni's call for genocide in Lebanon.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer, looking to Ecuador, notes that international arbitration awards do matter.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw is unimpressed by Australia's reaction to the Syrian refugee crisis.

  • Peter Rukavina shares a photo of Charlottetown transit's new maps.

  • Transit Toronto notes the delivery of the TTC's 16th streetcar.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the weakness of the Russian opposition, particularly in relation to Chechnya's Kadyrov.

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  • BCer in Toronto Jeff Jedras foodblogs from different Ottawa junkets.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly lists 20 ways to enjoy winter. (If it comes.)

  • Centauri Dreams shares the latest Pluto imagery and examines the ancient impact that created the Moon.

  • Crooked Timber notes that volunteers who help refugees arriving in Greece might be criminalized.

  • The Dragon's Gaze notes that some Earth-like worlds at different points in their history might be difficult to identify, and notes a SETI search looking for flashes from KIC 8462852 has turned up nothing.

  • Geocurrents maps development in the Philippines.

  • Marginal Revolution shares Alex Tabarrok's opinion that home ownership is overrated.

  • The Planetary Society Blog's Marc Rayman notes how important light is for Dawn"s imaging of Ceres.

  • pollotenchegg notes the historical patterns of ethnic change in southeast Ukraine, the Donbas standing out as especially Russian in population in language.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog notes demographic changes in Chechnya.

  • Transit Toronto notes that Toronto has gotten its 14th and 15th streetcars from Bombardier.

  • Window on Eurasia examines possible outcomes from Tatarstan's confrontation with the Russian federal government, notes the influence of Central Asian migrants on Russian Islam, suggests Russia is over-centralized, and notes one proposal to abolish Russia's ethnic units.

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