[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• D-Brief reports on the abundance of plastic waste found buried in the beaches of the Cocos Islands.
• Joe. My. God. notes that the US has imposed tariffs against India.
• JSTOR Daily looks at the strange history of phrenology.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes note of the Trump Administration’s honouring of Arthur Laffer.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer looks at the electricity price crisis that might determine who gets to be elected president of Argentina.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains how the Pauli Exclusion Principle makes matter possible.
• Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy argues against importing the principles of the Berlin Wall to the US-Mexico border.
• Window on Eurasia shares concerns that Russia is trying to expand its influence in the east of Belarus.