[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Centauri Dreams anticipates Ceres.
• Crooked Timber notes Big Oil is turning against Big Coal.
• Geocurrents shares Martin Lewis’ slides on Nigeria.
• Language Hat, reflecting on Irish and Hebrew, considers language change and shift.
• Language Log examines the historical American broadcast r-less accent.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money wants a good history of the Occupy movement.
• The New APPS Blog wonders what philosophical work might look like as technology and modes of scholarship evolve.
• The Power and Money’s Noel Maurer looks at Mexico’s political parties.
• Towleroad notes controversy in Houston over elderly LGBT housing and relations with police.
• The Volokh Conspiracy argues against the policies that led to Orange Telecom’s withdrawal from the Israeli occupied territories.
• Window on Eurasia looks at Russification, notes how Russia’s satellite program depends on American imports, and looks at the military incapacity of Tajikistan versus foreign threats like ISIS.