[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog offers some advice as to how to cope with rejection.
• Centauri Dreams shares Robert Zubrin’s take on the Drake Equation, and on ways it is lacking and could be improved.
• Crooked Timber looks at a book examining (among other things) the interactions of libertarian economists with racism and racist polities.
• D-Brief notes a study suggesting that, actually, people would react positively and with a minimum of panic to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
• Dangerous Minds takes a look at Chandra Oppenheim, an artist who at the age of 12 in 1980 released an amazing post-punk album.
• Gizmodo responds to the news that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are roughly the same mass.
• JSTOR Daily reports on the effects of the dingo fence in Australia on native wildlife there.
• Language Hat notes a new statistical analysis of literature that has found one of the sources of Shakespeare’s language.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how Trump’s many affairs make him eminently blackmailable.
• The LRB Blog reports on why academic workers in the United Kingdom are getting ready to strike on behalf of their pension rights, starting next week.
• Marginal Revolution notes the sharp ongoing decline in the population of Bulgaria, and wonders what can be done. What need be done, in fact, if Bulgarians as individuals are happy?
• Anastasia Edel writes about the Russian-American community, and what it is like being Russian-American in the era of Trump, over at the NYR Daily.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes that there seems to be no periodicity in extinction events, that there is no evidence of a cycle.