[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Anthropology.net’s Kambiz Kamrani notes evidence that environmental change in Kenya may have driven creativity in early human populations there.
• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shows how astronomers use stellar occultations to investigate the thin atmosphere of Neptune’s moon Triton.
• Centauri Dreams notes how melting ice creates landscape change on Ceres.
• D-Brief suggests that supervolcanoes do not pose such a huge risk to the survival of humanity, in the past or the future, as we thoughts.
• Dangerous Minds shares Paul Bowles’ recipe for a Moroccan love charm.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog investigates the transformation of shopping malls and in the era of Amazon Prime.
• At In Medias Res, Russell Arben Fox engages with Left Behind and that book’s portrayal of rural populations in the United States which feel left behind.
• JSTOR Daily looks at how Roman Catholic nuns on the 19th century American frontier challenged gender norms.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money is critical of Tex-Mex cuisine, calling it an uncreative re-presentation of Mexican cuisine for white people in high-calorie quantities.
• The NYR Daily shared this thought-provoking article noting how Irish America, because of falling immigration from Ireland and growing liberalism on that island, is diverging from its ancestral homeland.
• Drew Rowsome reviews The Monument, a powerful play currently on in Toronto that engages with the missing and murdered native women.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel notes, in a photo-heavy post, how galaxies die (or at least, how they stop forming stars).
• Towleroad shares a delightful interview with Adam Rippon conducted over a plate of hot wings.
• Window on Eurasia shares an alternate history article imagining what would have become of Russia had Muscovy not conquered Novgorod.
• Worthwhile Canadian Initiative notes the very sharp rise in public debt held by the province of Ontario, something that accelerated in recent years.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell suggests, in the era of Cambridge Analytica and fake news, that many journalists seem not to take their profession seriously enough.