[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Centauri Dreams notes the remarkable imaging of the atmosphere of HR 8799 e.
• Crooked Timber starts a discussion about books that, once picked up, turned out to be as good as promised.
• The Crux considers obsidian, known in the Game of Thrones world as dragonglass.
• Bruce Dorminey notes that NASA is considering a proposal for a floating Venus probe that would be recharged by microwaves from orbit.</li.
• The Dragon’s Tales shares a report that Russia has developed a new satellite to work with a new anti-satellite weapons system.
• Far Outliers notes what U.S. Grant learned from the Mexican-American War, as a strategist and as a politician.
• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing suggests, drawing from the image of M87*, that we have had a world disenchanted by the digital technology used to produce the image.
• JSTOR Daily shares what critical theory has to say about the binge-watching of television.
• Language Hat notes the Cherokee-language inscriptions on the wall of Manitou Cave.
• Language Log considers when the first conversing automaton was built.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes a look at a corner of 1970s feminism forgotten despite its innovative ideas.
• Marginal Revolution considers the idea of restricting some new migrants to particular regions of the United States.
• The NYR Daily explores the important new work by Igiaba Scego, Beyond Babylon.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel answers a surprisingly complex question: What is an electron?
• Window on Eurasia explains why the cost of a professional military means Russia will not abandon the draft.
• Arnold Zwicky explores “johnson” as a euphemism for penis.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• The Crux notes the discovery of a second impact crater in Greenland, hidden under the ice.
• D-Brief notes new evidence that ancient Celts did, in fact, decapitate their enemies and preserve their heads.
• Far Outliers notes how Pakhtun soldier Ayub Khan, in 1914-1915, engaged in some cunning espionage for the British Empire on the Western Front.
• Kashmir Hill at Gizmodo notes how cutting out the big five tech giants for one week–Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft–made it almost impossible for her to carry on her life.
• Hornet Stories notes that, unsurprisingly, LGBTQ couples are much more likely to have met online that their heterosexual counterparts.
• At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox imagines Elizabeth Warren giving a speech that touches sensitively and intelligently on her former beliefs in her Cherokee ancestry.
• Mónica Belevan at the Island Review writes, directly and allegorically, about the Galapagos Islands and her family and Darwin.
• JSTOR Daily looks at the economics of the romance novel.
• Language Hat notes the Mandombe script creating by the Kimbanguist movement in Congo.
• Harry Stopes at the LRB Blog notes the problem with Greater Manchester Police making homeless people a subject of concern.
• Ferguson activists, the NYR Daily notes, are being worn down by their protests.
• Roads and Kingdoms lists some things visitors to the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent should keep in mind.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel makes a case for supersymmetry being a failed prediction.
• Towleroad notes the near-complete exclusion of LGBTQ subjects and themes from schools ordered by Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro.
• Window on Eurasia notes a somewhat alarmist take on Central Asian immigrant neighbourhoods in Moscow.
• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the Kurds, their history, and his complicated sympathy for their concerns.

[NEWS] Five First Nations links: Louis Kamookak, Mohawk, Taushiro, jewelry, Elizabeth Warren

• Inuit oral historian Louie Kamookak gathered vital information in the recent recovery of the ships of the Franklin expedition in the Arctic. The National Post reports.
• A journalism class at Corcordia University is assembling a multimedia project to try to help the Mohawk language. Global News reports.
• The older article from the New York Times tracing the sad life of the last speaker of the Taushiro language, from the Peruvian Amazon, is tragic. The article is here.
• Jezebel notes that many recent migrants to New Mexico have, in their production of jewelry incorporating indigenous themes and materials like turquoise, harmed indigenous jewelers.
• I have to agree that the continued insistence of Elizabeth Warren that, contrary to all manner of genealogical proofs, she can lay claim to a Cherokee ancestor speaks poorly of her. If she has problems with facts as applied to her family … Jerry Adler writes here.

[NEWS] Four notes about futures, economies, apocalypses, and salvations

• Don Pittis plausibly suggests that, with spiraling inequality and the rise of tax havens, capitalism may be starting to break down. How can it function if the masses are excluded from prosperity? CBC has it.
• Thomas Wright suggests that, between Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin, it’s entirely possible their conflicting ambitions for themselves and their countries could trigger catastrophe. The Irish Times hosts the article.

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• Zach Ruiter makes a depressingly plausible case for climate change, particularly, triggering human extinction in the near term, over at NOW Toronto.
• Issie Lapowsky reports on how the equivalent of a guaranteed minimum income among the Eastern Band of the Cherokee has had significant positive effects on the lives of recipients, over at Wired.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• The Boston Globe‘s The Big Picture shares photos of Spain’s Pueblos Blancos of Andalusia.
• blogTO reports on Toronto’s biggest pumpkin parade.
• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly talks about the immigrant’s dilemma on election date.
• Dangerous Minds notes the importance of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s concert for Hillary.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a report on hot Jupiter Kelt-17b.
• The Dragon’s Tales suggests Sputnik Planitia may dominate Pluto.
• Far Outliers talks about Cherokee language revitalization movements.
• Language Log looks at a Korean tradition of satirical poetry in Korea and classical Chinese.
• Marginal Revolution links to a fascinating book about manuscripts.
• The NYRB Daily talks about Trump as a consequence of the Iraq War.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw notes the recent discovery of evidence for ancient habitation in Australia.
• The Planetary Society Blog notes the advance of plans for a lunar-orbit space station.
• Peter Rukavina shares headlines in the Guardian of a century ago on Romania’s entry into the First World War.
• Torontoist annotates the SmartTrack report.
• Towleroad shares Robyn’s new track, “Trust Me.”
• Understanding Society celebrates its 9th anniversary.
• Window on Eurasia reports on Russia’s escalating HIV/AIDS epidemic.