[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• Centauri Dreams considers the possibility of life not based on DNA as we know it.
• D-Brief considers the possibility that the formation of stratocumulus clouds might be halted by climate change.
• Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the negative health effects of the stresses imposed by racists.
• Far Outliers notes the mix of migrants in the population of Calcutta.
• Hornet Stories notes that the Brazilian government is preparing to revoke marriage equality.
• Erin Blakemore writes at JSTOR Daily about the gloriously messy complexity of Jane Eyre.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the growing anti-government protests in Algeria.
• The NYR Daily notes the response of Auden to an anthology’s no-platforming of the poems of Ezra Pound.
• pollotenchegg reports on Soviet census data from 1990, mapping the great disparities between different parts of the Soviet Union.
• Starts With A Bang notes the mysterious quiet of the black hole at the heart of the Whirlpool Galaxy, M51.
• Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia is growing increasingly dependent on a more competent China.
• Arnold Zwicky writes about some of his encounters, past and present, on Emerson Street in Palo Alto.