[BLOG] Some Monday links
- Centauri Dreams considers what would be needed, and what would be the use, of a SETI search of Earth’s co-orbitals.
- John Quiggin at Crooked Timber considers the idea of nature potentially having legal rights in the context of corporations, likewise, actually having such.
- D-Brief reports that the Mars 2020 probe will bring with it a mini-probe built around a helicopter.
- io9 notes that writer Jonathan Hickman will be coming back to Marvel to write two new X-Men books this summer.
- Joe. My. God. notes that a Trump supporter recently arrested for a Mafia slaying had earlier tried to conduct citizen’s arrests of prominent Democrats.
- Language Hat takes a look at obscenities in Russian that do not quite make it over to English.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money reacts to the massive anti-Brexit protests in the United Kingdom this past weekend.
- Marginal Revolution discusses just how bad a Brexit is likely to be, or not.
- Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains why LIGO and like instruments have not detected gravitational wave sources within our galaxy. (Briefly, they aren’t good enough yet to pick up faint sources.)
- The Volokh Conspiracy notes that not much new has come from the release of the Mueller investigation summary.
- Arnold Zwicky builds from a report of a new LGBTQ consumer advocate from Florida, Nik Harris.
Written by Randy McDonald
March 25, 2019 at 3:00 pm
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