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Bad Astronomy notes a new detailed study suggesting that asteroid Hygeia is round. Does this mean it is a dwarf planet?

The Buzz notes that the Toronto Public Library has a free booklet on the birds of Toronto available at its branches.

Crooked Timber looks forward to a future, thanks to Trump, without the World Trade Organization.

D-Brief notes how the kelp forests off California were hurt by unseasonal heat and disease.

Bruce Dorminey notes an impending collision of supergalactic clusters.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how judgement can complicate collective action.

Language Hat looks at the different definitions of the word "mobile".

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Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how, if anything, climate scientists make conservative claims about their predictions.

Marginal Revolution wonders if planned power outages are a good way to deal with the threat of wildfires in California.

The NYR Daily looks at the ethnic cleansing being enabled by Turkey in Kurdish Syria.

Corey S. Powell at Out There interviews archeologist Arthur Lin about his use of space-based technologies to discovery traces of the past.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the staggering inequality in Chile, driver of the recent protests.

At Roads and Kingdoms, Anthony Elghossain reports from the scene of the mass protests in Lebanon.

Drew Rowsome tells how his balcony garden fared this year.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at stellar generations in the universe. (Our sun is a third-generation star.)

Strange Company looks at the murder of a girl five years old in Indiana in 1898. Was the neighbor boy twelve years old accused of the crime the culprit?

Denis Colombi at Une heure de peine takes a look at social mobility in France.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little considers economic historians and their study of capitalism.

Window on Eurasia looks at the pro-Russian policies of the Moldova enclave of Gagauzia, and draws recommendations for Ukraine re: the Donbas.

Adam Fish at anthro{dendum} shares a new take on the atmosphere, as a common good.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a photo of Earth taken from a hundred million kilometres away by the OSIRIS-REx probe.

The Crux tells the story of how the first exoplanets were found.

D-Brief notes that life could be possible on a planet orbiting a supermassive black hole, assuming it could deal with the blueshifting.

io9 looks at the latest bold move of Archie Comics.

JSTOR Daily explores cleaning stations, where small fish clean larger ones.

Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the role China seeks to play in a remade international order.

The Map Room Blog looks at the new upcoming national atlas of Estonia.

Marginal Revolution touches on the great ambition of Louis XIV for a global empire.

Steve Baker of The Numerati shares photos from his recent trip to Spain.

Anya Schiffrin at the NRY Daily explains how American journalist Varian Fry helped her family, and others, escape the Nazis.

Drew Rowsome reviews the classic movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a map looking at the barriers put up by the high-income world to people moving from outside.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel answers the complex question of how, exactly, the density of a black hole can be measured.

John Scalzi at Whatever reviews Gemini Man. Was the high frame rate worth it?

Window on Eurasia notes the deep hostility of Tuvins towards a large Russian population in Tuva.

Arnold Zwicky considers the existential question of self-aware cartoon characters.

Bad Astronomy notes the remarkably eccentric orbit of gas giant HR 5138b.

Centauri Dreams notes the impact that large-scale collisions have on the evolution of planets.

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber noted yesterday that babies born on September 11th in 2001 are now 18 years old, adults.

The Crux notes that some of the hominins in the Sima de los Huesos site in Spain, ancestors to Neanderthals, may have been murdered.

D-Brief reports on the cryodrakon, a pterosaur that roamed the skies above what is now Canada 77 million years ago.

Dangerous Minds looks at the political artwork of Jan Pötter.

Gizmodo notes a poll suggesting a majority of Britons would support actively seeking to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations.

io9 has a loving critical review of the first Star Trek movie.

JSTOR Daily shares, from April 1939, an essay by the anonymous head of British intelligence looking at the international context on the eve of the Second World War.

Language Log notes a recent essay on the mysterious Voynich manuscript, one concluding that it is almost certainly a hoax of some kind.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the future of the labour movement in the United States.

Marginal Revolution considers what sort of industrial policy would work for the United States.

Yardena Schwartz writes at NYR Daily about the potential power of Arab voters in Israel.

Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections explains why, despite interest, Australia did not launch a space program in the 1980s.

Drew Rowsome provides a queer review of It: Chapter Two.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how government censorship of science doomed the Soviet Union and could hurt the United States next.

Window on Eurasia notes how, in the Volga republics, recent educational policy changes have marginalized non-Russian languages.

Arnold Zwicky shares a glossy, fashion photography-style, reimagining of the central relationship in the James Baldwin classic Giovanni's Room, arranged by Hilton Als.

The city of Fredericton hopes a new strategy to attracting international migration to the New Brunswick capital will help its grow its population by 25 thousand. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities notes the controversy in Amsterdam as users of moped find themselves being pushed from using bike lanes.

Guardian Cities looks at how many in Athens think the city might do well to unbury the rivers covered under concrete and construction in the second half of the 20th century.

The Sagrada Familia, after more than 130 years of construction, has finally received a permit for construction from Barcelona city authorities. Global News reports.

Evan Gershkovich at the Moscow Times reports on how the recent ousting of the mayor of the Latvian capital of Riga for corruption is also seem through a lens of ethnic conflict.

La Presse notes that the Bixi bike-sharing service in Montréal is celebrating its 11th anniversary.

Marginal Revolution notes how better policing cut into crime in Camden, New Jersey.

The NYR Daily looks at how Brexit and a hardened border will hit the Northern Ireland city of Derry.

Guardian Cities reports on the gang that goes around Rome at night making illegal repairs to crumbling infrastructure.

CityLab reports on how Cape Town is coping, one year after it nearly ran out of water.

Roads and Kingdoms shares tips for travellers visiting Hong Kong.

Guardian Cities reports on the families made refugees by Partition who tried to swap homes in Dhaka and Calcutta.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shows four different images of nearby stellar nursery NGC 1333.

Centauri Dreams looks at the hot Saturn TOI-197, and the way it was detected.

D-Brief notes how galaxy NGC-1052 DF2 has been confirmed as the second galaxy apparently lacking in dark matter.

Gizmodo notes new confirmation, from an orbiting probe, that Curiosity detected methane emanating from Mars back in 2013.

Hornet Stories tries to correct some misconceptions about the Burning Man festival.

The Island Review links to a New York Times profile of post-Maria Puerto Rico.

Joe. My. God. notes that Martin Shkreli has been tossed into solitary confinement.

JSTOR Daily notes the work of psychologists in the 1930s US who profiled individuals who did not fit the gender binary. Would these people have identified themselves as trans or non-binary now?

The LRB Blog notes the fondness of Jacob Rees-Mogg for extreme-right German politicians from the AfD.

Language Log shares a written ad in Cantonese from Hong Kong.

Lawyers, Guns and Money compares China now to the Untied States of the past, and finds interesting correspondences.

Marginal Revolution notes the deep and significant commitment of China under Mao to providing foreign aid.

The NYR Daily looks at the complex, once-overlooked, life and career of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer of "The Yellow Wallpaper".

Out There notes that, while dark matter is certainly real, "dark matter" is a poor name for this mysterious substance.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog considers the challenges to be faced by Hayabusa 2 when it fires a sampling probe into asteroid Ryugu.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers how into the universe a spaceship could travel if it accelerated consistently at one gravity.

Strange Company examines the life and adventures of Jeffrey Hudson, a royal dwarf in 17th century England.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society builds on the work of V.K. Ramachandran in considering the ethics of development ethnography.

Window on Eurasia notes the new identification of Azerbaijanis as victims of genocide by neighbours, and what this means for the relations of Azerbaijan.

Arnold Zwicky has fun, in a NSFW fanfic way, with figures from comics contemporary and old.

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.

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.

I've a new links post up at Demography Matters.

La Presse notes that suburbanization proceeds in Montréal, as migration from the island of Montréal to off-island suburbs grows. This is of perhaps particular note in a Québec where demographics, particularly related to language dynamics, have long been a preoccupation, the island of Montréal being more multilingual than its suburbs.

The blog Far Outliers has been posting excerpts from The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta, a 2018 book by Kushanava Choudhury. One brief excerpt touches upon the diversity of Calcutta's migrant population.

The South China Morning Post has posted some interesting articles about language dynamics. In one, the SCMP suggests that the Cantonese language is falling out of use among young people in Guangzhou, largest Cantonese-speaking city by population. Does this hint at decline in other Chinese languages? Another, noting how Muslim Huiare being pressured to shut down Arabic-medium schools, is more foreboding.

Ukrainian demographics blogger pollotenchegg is back with a new map of Soviet census data from 1990, one that shows the very different population dynamics of some parts of the Soviet Union. The contrast between provincial European Russia and southern Central Asia is outstanding.

In the area of the former Soviet Union, scholar Otto Pohl has recently examined 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. The blog Window on Eurasia, meanwhile, has noted 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.
Finally, JSTOR Daily has observed the extent to which border walls represent, ultimately, a failure of politics.

Curbed looks at what is happening with the proposed new streetcar route connecting Brooklyn and Queens.

Urban farm Grow Calgary has found a new home in the southeast of that city. Global News reports.

The claim of Donald Trump that Texas border city El Paso was a criminalized disaster spinning out of control is, of course, provably wrong. VICE has it.

This Guardian feature shares the responses of readers to an article looking at the decline of the high street of the English city of Sheffield.

CityLab looks at the impact of terrorism on Nairobi, at the growing presence of elements of security theatre on the street and at the targeting of ethnic Somalis in Eastleigh.

Hazel McCallion, the nonagenarian former mayor of Mississauga, has been appointed an advisor to the Ford government in Ontario. Global News reports.

A Simcoe County that faces a threat of amalgamation under the Ontario provincial government is already composed of communities feeling they lack adequate representation. The Toronto Star reports.

CityLab notes how a history of racism complicated efforts to plant new trees in Detroit.

Douglas Todd at the Vancouver Sun notes how ethnic tensions in multicultural South Burnaby surfaced in the former Liberal candidate's treatment of NDP leader Jagmeet Singh.

The NYR Daily looks at what is going on in and around El Paso as the Mexican-American border facing further closing.

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.

Ryan Anderson at Anthrodendum takes a look at how the threat posed to coastal properties by sea level rise reveals much about how human beings assign value.

A BCer in Toronto's Jeff Jedras writes about the food at a Newfoundlander party in Ottawa.

D-Brief considers how past ice ages might have been caused by the shifting poles.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the work of Michelle Pannor Silver, looking at how retirement can influence the identities of individuals.

Far Outliers notes that, in its first major wars, Japan treated prisoners of war well.

JSTOR Daily examines a paper that takes a look at how the X-Men have achieved such resonance in pop culture, such power as symbols of minorities' persecution and survival.

Lawyers, Guns and Money is critical of the effusive press coverage of Mitt Romney, new Republican senator.

Geoffrey Pullum at Lingua Franca shares, for other English speakers, a lexicon of specialized words from the United Kingdom regarding Brexit.

At the LRB Blog, Hyo Yoon Kang takes a look at a series of legal hearings investigating the possibility of assigning legal responsibility for global warming to "carbon majors" like big oil.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution shares his argument that the history of the 21st century United States might look like that of the 19th century, with progress despite political disarray.

The NYR Daily shares the arguments of scholar of populism, Jan-Werner Müller, looking at what Cold War liberalism has to say now.

Peter Rukavina shares the story of his two visits to relatives around the Croatian city of Kutina, with photos.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how astronomers solved the mystery of the "Zone of Avoidance", the portions of space blotted out by the dense plane of our galaxy.

Window on Eurasia reports from a conference on minority languages where speakers complain about Russian government pressures against their languages.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at tea, starting with tea-time aphorisms and going further afield.

The Buzz celebrates Esi Edugyan's winning of the Giller Prize for the second time, for her amazing novel Washington Black.

Centauri Dreams notes the unusual rings of outer-system body Chariklo.

The Crux looks at the long history of unsuccessful planet-hunting at Barnard's Star, concentrating on the disproved mid-20th century work of Peter Van De Kamp.

D-Brief notes evidence that Mars knew catastrophic floods that radically reshaped its surface.

Bruce Dorminey visits and explores Korea's ancient Cheomseongdae Observatory.

The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the death of long-time contributor Peter Kaufman.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the things--quiet, even--that modernity can undermine before transforming into a commodity.

Imageo notes that global warming has continued this American Thanksgiving.

Joe. My. God. notes the sour grapes of the Family Research Council at the success of the moving film about "gay conversion therapy", Boy Erased.

JSTOR Daily links to a paper considering if the zeitgeist of the world is into major monuments.

Language Log considers a news report of "arsehole" geese in Australia. As a Canadian, all I can say is that geese are birds that know they are dinosaurs.

The LRB Blog reports from the scene of the recent unrecognized elections in the city of Donetsk, run by a pro-Russian regime.

The Map Room Blog reports on how Atlas Obscura is exhibiting some amazing maps produced in Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting how black teachers can help boost achievements among black students.

The New APPS Blog looks at how the political economy of our time combines with social media to atomize and fragment society.

Nicholas Lezard at the NYR Daily talks about his experience of anti-Semitism, as a non-Jew, in the United Kingdom.

Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog suggests families would do better to talk about space at Thanksgiving than about politics, and shares a list of subjects.

Drew Rowsome talks about the frustrations and the entertainment involved with Bohemian Rhapsody.

Window on Eurasia notes that fifty thousand ethnic Kyrgyz are being held in the Xinjiang camps of China.

Arnold Zwicky shares some Thanksgiving holiday cartoons by Roz Chast.

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.

Centauri Dreams takes a look at the first generation of stars, starting with newly-discovered ancient 2MASS J18082002–5104378 B.
Crooked Timber takes a look at the political opinions of different generations in the United States. Is there a shift about to happen?

The Crux takes a look at the excavation of the floating pleasure palaces of Caligula in Italy's Lake Nemi, something showing the scope of Roman construction.

D-Brief notes how scientists managed to trigger limb regrowth in frogs, with obvious potential for humans.

JSTOR Daily looks at the many quiet ways in which the slaves of Arkansas resisted their domination by whites.

Lingua Franca takes a look at the strange linguistic crime of blasphemy in 21st century Europe.

At the NYR Daily, Nicole Rudick examines the early work of underground Montréal cartoonist Julie Doucet.

Window on Eurasia shares a warning that growing pressures on land could lead to ethnic conflict in the North Caucasus.

Charlie Stross at Antipope asks his readers an interesting question: What are the current blind spots of science fiction? What issues and themes need to be addresses by contemporary writers?

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the discovery of three planets around young star HD 163296, and his role in the identification of one as a possibility.

Crooked Timber notes the strange ways in which the predictive text function of Gmail echoes the all-quotations language of the Ascians of Gene Wolfe.

D-Brief notes an ambitious plan to survey the Andromeda Galaxy for signs of powerful laser beams used by extraterrestrial intelligences for communications or transport.

Joe. My. God. notes the plan of China to launch an artificial mirrored satellite into orbit to provide night-time light for the city of Chengdu.

Allan Metcalfe at Lingua Franca considers some of the words candidate to be considered the best word for 2018.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that global economic divergence ended, after a century and a quarter, in 1990, and that there has been subsequently rapid economic convergence in the globalized neo-liberal era.

Alex Carp at the NYR Daily reviews Jill Lepore's new book, These Truths: A History of the United States, examining the importance of fact and of narrative in forming identities.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at the challenges involved in returning a sample from asteroid Ryugu.

Drew Rowsome takes a look at the recent books of Raziel Reid and Jesse Trautman, noting how each delineates some of the contours of contemporary queer male life.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how we can estimate that there are two trillion galaxies in the universe.

Window on Eurasia notes the various inter-ethnic disputes over interpretations of ancient history in the North Caucasus.

Centauri Dreams notes, taking a look past more than a century of images of the famous star J1407 including its planet with massive ring system, the power of big data to reveal important things about the universe.

D-Brief takes a look at the discoveries of the Hayabusa2 probe at asteroid Ryugu.

Gizmodo notes that the planned landing of the Hayabusa2 probe on Ryugu has been postponed until 2019 in order to find a safe landing point on the rocky asteroid's surface.

Livia Gershon at JSTOR Daily takes a look at how modern Hallowe'en derives from the Celtic day of Samhain.

Joe. My. God. reports on a Gavin McInnes speech to the Young Republicans Club of New York City in which he says, despite his Proud Boys' crudity and violence, the two groups have much in common, that they need the Proud Boys even.

Anne Curzon at Lingua Franca takes a look at the changing definition of "fun" in recent decades.

The LRB Blog takes a look at the storied destruction by fire of the Soviet steamship Pobeda in the Black Sea in 1948.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution suggests
Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw sees the alt-right being fed by the radicalism of the far left.

Brittney Cooper at the Planetary Society Blog shares some images of heiligenschein from throughout the solar system.

Drew Rowsome looks at a recent horror novel by Douglas Clegg, The Infinite.

Window on Eurasia argues the ethnic distinction confirmed by Stalin between Tatars and Bashkirs has weakened both groups versus wider Russia.

Arnold Zwicky plays with the idea of the piñata, at multiple levels.

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.

Many things accumulated after a pause of a couple of months. Here are some of the best links to come about in this time.

Anthrodendum considers the issue of the security, or not, of cloud data storage used by anthropologists.

Architectuul takes a look at the very complex history of urban planning and architecture in the city of Skopje, linked to issues of disaster and identity.

Centauri Dreams features an essay by Ioannis Kokkidinis, examining the nature of the lunar settlement of Artemis in Andy Weir's novel of the same. What is it?

Crux notes the possibility that human organs for transplant might one day soon be grown to order.

D-Brief notes evidence that extrasolar visitor 'Oumuamua is actually more like a comet than an asteroid.

Bruce Dorminey makes the sensible argument that plans for colonizing Mars have to wait until we save Earth. (I myself have always thought the sort of environmental engineering necessary for Mars would be developed from techniques used on Earth.)

The Everyday Sociology Blog took an interesting look at the relationship between hobbies and work.

Far Outliers looks at how, in the belle époque, different European empires took different attitudes towards the emigration of their subjects depending on their ethnicity. (Russia was happy to be rid of Jews, while Hungary encouraged non-Magyars to leave.)

The Finger Post shares some photos taken by the author on a trip to the city of Granada, in Nicaragua.

The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas makes an interesting argument as to the extent to which modern technology creates a new sense of self-consciousness in individuals.

Inkfish suggests that the bowhead whale has a more impressive repertoire of music--of song, at least--than the fabled humpback.

Information is Beautiful has a wonderful illustration of the Drake Equation.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the American women who tried to prevent the Trail of Tears.

Language Hat takes a look at the diversity of Slovene dialects, this diversity perhaps reflecting the stability of the Slovene-inhabited territories over centuries.

Language Log considers the future of the Cantonese language in Hong Kong, faced with pressure from China.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how negatively disruptive a withdrawal of American forces from Germany would be for the United States and its position in the world.

Lingua Franca, at the Chronicle, notes the usefulness of the term "Latinx".

The LRB Blog reports on the restoration of a late 19th century Japanese-style garden in Britain.

The New APPS Blog considers the ways in which Facebook, through the power of big data, can help commodify personal likes.

Neuroskeptic reports on the use of ayahusasca as an anti-depressant. Can it work?

Justin Petrone, attending a Nordic scientific conference in Iceland to which Estonia was invited, talks about the frontiers of Nordic identity.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw writes about what it is to be a literary historian.

Drew Rowsome praises Dylan Jones' new biographical collection of interviews with the intimates of David Bowie.

Peter Rukavina shares an old Guardian article from 1993, describing and showing the first webserver on Prince Edward Island.

Seriously Science notes the potential contagiousness of parrot laughter.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little t.com/2018/06/shakespeare-on-tyranny.htmltakes a look at the new Stephen Greenblatt book, Shakespeare on Power, about Shakespeare's perspectives on tyranny.

Window on Eurasia shares speculation as to what might happen if relations between Russia and Kazakhstan broke down.

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative noticed, before the election, the serious fiscal challenges facing Ontario.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell points out that creating a national ID database in the UK without issuing actual cards would be a nightmare.

Arnold Zwicky reports on a strand of his Swiss family's history found in a Paris building.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Fredericton, Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Riga

[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Montréal, Camden, Derry, Rome, Cape Town, Hong Kong, Dhaka & Calcutta

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[DM] Some news inks: Montréal & Calcutta migration, Chinese languages, former Soviet Union, borders

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Brooklyn and Queens, Calgary, El Paso, Sheffield, Nairobi

[BLOG] Five city links: Mississauga, Simcoe County, Detrroit, Burnaby, El Paso

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