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• Bad Astronomy notes the very odd structure of galaxy NGC 2775.


• Dangerous Minds reports on the 1987 riot by punks that wrecked a Seattle ferry.


• Bruce Dorminey reports on a new suggestion from NASA that the massive dust towers of Mars have helped dry out that world over eons.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how changing technologies have led to younger people spending more social capital on maintaining relationships with friends over family.


• This forum hosted at Gizmodo considers the likely future causes of death of people in coming decades.


• In Media Res' Russell Arben Fox reports on the debate in Wichita on what to do with the Century II performance space.


• Joe. My. God. reports on the decision of Hungary to drop out of Eurovision, apparently because of its leaders' homophobia.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the debunking of the odd theory that the animals and people of the Americas were degenerate dwarfs.


• Language Hat reports on how the classics can be served by different sorts of translation.


• Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers how Trump's liberation of war criminals relates to folk theories about just wars.


• The LRB Blog reports from the ground in the Scotland riding of East Dunbartonshire.


• Marginal Revolution shares a paper suggesting that, contrary to much opinion, social media might actually hinder the spread of right-wing populism.


• The NYR Daily looks at the nature of the proxy fighters in Syria of Turkey. Who are they?


• Drew Rowsome interviews Sensational Sugarbum, star of--among other things--the latest Ross Petty holiday farce.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why we still need to be able to conduct astronomy from the Earth.


• Strange Maps explains the odd division of Europe between east and west, as defined by different subspecies of mice.


• Window on Eurasia notes how Chinese apparently group Uighurs in together with other Central Asians of similar language and religion.


• Arnold Zwicky explores the concept of onomatomania.

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares a stunning photo taken by a friend of the Pleiades star cluster.


• The Buzz, at the Toronto Public Library, shares a collection of books suitable for World Vegan Month, here.


• Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber considers, with an eye towards China and the Uighurs, how panopticon attempts can stray badly on account of--among other things--false assumptions.


• Gizmodo considers how antimatter could end up providing interesting information about the unseen universe.


• Joe. My. God. reports from New York City, where new HIV cases are dropping sharply on account of PrEP.


• JSTOR Daily shares a vintage early review of Darwin's Origin of Species.


• Language Hat examines the origins of the semicolon, in Venice in 1494.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a critical report of the new Jill Lepore book These Truths.


• The LRB Blog reports from the Museum of Corruption in Kyiv, devoted to the corruption of the ancient regime in Ukraine.


• Marginal Revolution shares a new history of the Lakota.


• The NYR Daily looks at the photography of Duane Michals.


• The Russian Demographics Blog looks at population trends in Russia, still below 1991 totals in current frontiers.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why some of the lightest elements, like lithium, are so rare.


• Window on Eurasia shares the opinion of a Russian historian that Eastern Europe is back as a geopolitical zone.


• Arnold Zwicky considers Jacques Transue in the light of other pop culture figures and trends.

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


• Arnold Zwicky reports on an old butch cookbook.

• Anthrodendum features a guest post from editors introducing a series on fieldwork and trauma.


• Crooked Timber's John Quiggin takes a stab at trying to define neoliberalism as an ideology, not just a catch-all phrase.


• The Crux looks at desalination, a difficult process that we may need to use regardless of its difficulty.


• D-Brief notes that narcissism is linked to lower levels of stress and depression.


• Jezebel notes the return and legacy of Bratz dolls.


• Joe. My. God. shares the Sam Smith cover of the Donna Summer classic "I Feel Love", along with other versions of that song.


• JSTOR Daily considers if graphene will ever become commercially usable.


• Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money links to an analysis warning about commercial debt. Another 2008?


• Marginal Revolution points to some papers suggesting that cannabis usage does not harm cognition, that the relationship is if anything reversed.


• Daphne Merkin at the NYR Daily looks back at her literary life, noting people now gone.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the new Daniel MacIvor play Let's Run Away.


• The Volokh Conspiracy looks at how the Trump Administration lost two cases against sanctuary cities.


• Window on Eurasia considers, briefly, the idea of Gorbachev giving to Germany Kaliningrad, last remnant of East Prussia.


• Worthwhile Canadian Initiative looks at the rises in health spending directed towards young people. Is this a warning sign of poor health?


• Arnold Zwicky looks at Gaysper, and then at other queer ghosts.

• Carl Newport at WIRED argues that past generations have never been as suspicious of technology as we now think, here.


• Anthropologist Darren Byler at The Conversation argues, based on his fieldwork in Xinjiang, how Uighurs became accustomed to the opportunities of new technologies until they were suddenly caught in a trap.


• James Verini at WIRED notes how the fighting around Mosul in the fall of ISIS could be called the first smartphone war.


• National Observer looks at how Québec is so far leading Canada in the development of clean technologies, including vehicles.


• VICE reports on how a Christian rock LP from the 1980s also hosted a Commodore 64 computer program.


• Megan Molteni at WIRED looks at a new, more precise, CRISPR technique that could be used to fix perhaps most genetic diseases.

• Adam Fish at anthro{dendum} compares different sorts of public bathing around the world, from Native America to Norden to Japan.


• Charlie Stross at Antipope is unimpressed by the person writing the script for our timeline.


• Architectuul reports on an architectural conference in Lisbon.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning photos of the eruption of the Raikoke volcano in Kamchatka.


• Centauri Dreams looks at what the Voyager spacecraft have returned about the edge of the solar system.


• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with the idea of bipartisanship if it means compromising on reality, allegorically.


• The Crux counts the number of people who have died in outer space.


• D-Brief notes that the Andromeda Galaxy has swallowed up multiple dwarf galaxies over the eons.


• Dead Things notes the identification of the first raptor species from Southeast Asia, Siamraptor suwati.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a paper tracing the origins of interstellar comet 2/Borisov from the general area of Kruger 60.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about the privilege allowing people access to affordable dental care.


• Gizmodo tells how Alexei Leonov survived the first spacewalk.


• io9 looks at the remarkable new status quo for the X-Men created by Jonathan Hickman.


• Selma Franssen at the Island Review writes about the threats facing the seabirds of the Shetlands.


• JSTOR Daily looks at what led Richard Nixon to make so many breaks from the American consensus on China in the Cold War.


• Language Log notes an undergraduate course at Yale using the Voynich Manuscript as an aid in the study of language.


• Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains her recent experience of the socialized health care system of Israel for Americans.


• The LRB Blog looks at how badly the Fukuyama prediction of an end to history has aged.


• The Map Room Blog shares a few maps of the new Ottawa LRT route.


• Marginal Revolution notes a paper establishing a link between Chinese industries undermining their counterparts in Mexico and Mexican social ills including crime.


• Sean Marshall reports from Ottawa about what the Confederation Line looks like.


• Adam Shatz at the NYR Daily looks at the power of improvisation in music.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at South Williamsburg Jewish deli Gottlieb's.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the new Patti Smith book, Year of the Monkey.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper looking as the factors leading into transnational movements.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the question of the direction(s) in which order in the universe was generated.


• Window on Eurasia shares a report noting the very minor flows of migration from China to Russia.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the politics in the British riding of Keighley.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at some penguin socks.

• CityLab looks at a new study examining the relationship between gentrification and new city parks.


• Guardian Cities looks at the hardest-working cities in the world, and wonders if that duration of work is a good idea.


• The Conversation looks at how population growth in Canada is increasingly concentrated in car-dependent suburbs.


• VICE looks at how arbitrary municipal borders in built-up areas can have nasty effects on the lives of people caught up by them.


• Rabble reports on how Canadian libraries are handling the opioid crisis.