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Assorted Personal Notations, Essays, and Other Jottings

[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.