[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Charlie Stross at Antipope has an open thread regarding Brexit.
• Centauri Dreams considers the dust lanes of the solar system.
• D-Brief reports on the discovery of the first confirmed skull piece of a Denisovan.
• Dangerous Minds considers the filmic history of Baron Munchausen.
• JSTOR Daily considers the past of the Monroe Doctrine, as a marker of American power over the Western Hemisphere.
• Language Log notes that “frequency illusion”, a 2005 coinage of Arnold Zwicky on that blog, has made it to the Oxford English Dictionary. Congratulations!
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the talents of Pete Buttigieg, someone who (among other things) is fluent in the Norwegian language. Could he be a serious challenger?
• Oliver Miles at the LRB Blog notes the threat of new locust swarms across the Sahara and into the Middle East.
• Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution highlights a new paper aiming to predict the future, one that argues that the greatest economic gains will eventually accrue to the densest populations.
• The NYR Daily reports from the scene in a fragmented Libya.
• The Planetary Society Blog reports that the OSIRIS-REx probe has detected asteroid Bennu ejecting material into space.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains the import of having a supermoon occur on the Equinox this year.
• Strange Maps’ Frank Jacobs reports a new finding that Mercury actually tends to be the closest planet in the Solar System to Earth.
• Window on Eurasia notes that fewer Russians than before think highly of the annexation of Crimea.