[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• Bad Astronomy notes how the occultation of distant stars by nearby asteroids can help astronomers determine stars’ size.
• D-Brief notes the remarkable achievements of some scientists in reviving the brains of pigs hours after their death.
• Dangerous Minds takes a look at how David Bowie got involved in The Man Who Fell To Earth.
• Dead Things looks at the recent identification of the late Cretaceous dinosaur Gobihadros.
• Bruce Dorminey notes that astronomers have determined an interstellar meteorite likely hit the Earth in 2014.
• Gizmodo reports on a very dim L-dwarf star 250 light-years away, ULAS J224940.13−011236.9, that experienced a massive flare. How did it do it?
• Hornet Stories shares some vintage photos of same-sex couples from generations ago being physically affectionate.
• At The Island Review, Nancy Forde writes about motherhood and her experience on Greenland, in the coastal community of Ilulissat.
• JSTOR Daily notes how Paris’ Notre-Dame has always been in a process of recreation.
• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, and Money notes the continuing oppression of workers in Bangladesh.
• The LRB Blog notes the flaws in the defense, and in the political thinking, of Julian Assange. (Transparency is not enough.)
• The NYR Daily reports on how photographer Claudia Andujar has regarded the Yanomami as they face existential challenges.
• The Planetary Society Blog traces the crash of Beresheet on the Moon to a software conflict.
• Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy warns against the idea of inevitable moral progress.
• Window on Eurasia notes the desires of some Russian conservatives to see Russia included in a European Union dominated by neo-traditionalists.