[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Centauri Dreams considers methods for detecting early life telescopically on exoplanets.
• Crooked Timber considers how legislators bear personal responsibility, morally at least, for consequences of the legislations that they pass.
• Bruce Dorminey reports that the new TESS telescope may well be capable of spotting dense clouds of satellites in geosynchronous orbit of exoplanets as distant as 100 light years.
• Far Outliers considers how in Iran, the veil worn by a woman was a status symbol, for her husband and family as much as for the woman.
• Language Hat reports on the strange survival of the classical manuscript Alexandra.
• Language Log suggests that the Confucius Institute network set up by China does not seem to spread Chinese language so much as Chinese culture.
• As the Mueller investigation continues, Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests many of the players in the Trump Administration are facing a real-life version of the prisoner’s dilemma.
• The Map Room Blog notes how maps of London’s Chiswick have been compiled into a public mural.
• The NYR Daily has an amusing sketched review of the Michaelangelo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. (My pictures will be coming!)
• Drew Rowsome takes a look at some of the fashion unveiled by Gucci in their recent Milan show.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains how cosmic inflation means that, despite the speed of light and the universe’s age of 13.8 billion years, we can see things now 46 billion light years away.
• Understanding Society’s Daniel Little looks at some of the social factors going into nuclear accidents.
• Window on Eurasia reports a familiar sort of pattern, of Central Asian migrants held in Russian prisons spreading Islam among their fellow detainees.