[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes a team of students who caught footage of the August solar eclipse from a high-altitude balloon.
• D-Brief notes the discovery that the early Moon apparently had a very thin atmosphere for tens of millions of years.
• The Dragon’s Tales links to Elon Musk’s descriptions of his space ambitions.
• Hornet Stories notes that many on the alt-right are upset that game Wolfenstein is all about shooting Nazis.
• The LRB Blog notes the almost ridiculous irony of Conservative Theresa May wearing a bracelet with the image of radical leftist Frida Kahlo.
• Russell Darnley looks at efforts to get Singapore restaurants to shift away from using environmentally damaging palm oil.
• The NYR Daily looks at the overwhelming power of the NRA in the modern United States.
• The Planetary Society Blog considers ways we can do SETI better by having a less Eurocentric understanding of our own history.
• Window on Eurasia wonders if Uzbekistan and Kyrgzystan could solve border issues through swapping enclaves.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the corrosive effect of Bannon, and journalistic culture generally, on politics.

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