[BLOG] Some Saturday links
- Centauri Dreams considers the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe to Bennu.
- D-Brief notes that the core and the crust of dwarf planet Ceres apparently rotate at different speeds.
- Dangerous Minds shares the early glam rock of Rick Springfield.
- Gizmodo looks at the discovery of a new, oddly faint, sort of supernova explosion, one that explains how neutron stars can ever be so close as to collide.
- JSTOR Daily examines the concept of mana, the mystical power that can be generated by the act of speech.
- The LRB Blog considers how humanity will ever be able to address the rising sea, through geoengineering or techniques still more new to us.
- Window on Eurasia wonders if Belarus is likely to be the new target of Russian expansionism.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 13, 2018 at 8:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
Tagged with astronomy, belarus, blogs, borders, ceres, dwarf planets, former soviet union, global warming, language, links, neutron stars, news, oceans, popular music, rick springfield, russia, space science, space travel, supernovas