[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• {anthro}dendum features a post by Kimberly J. Lewis about strategies for anthropologists to write, and be human, after trauma.
• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on exoplanet LHC 3844b, a world that had its atmosphere burned away by its parent star.
• Centauri Dreams looks at Neptune from the perspective of exoplanets discovered near snow lines.
• D-Brief reports on the new Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, installed at Kitt Peak to help map galaxies and dark energy.
• Gizmodo
• looks at how Airbnb is dealing with party houses after a fatal mass shooting.
• The Island Review shares some drawings by Charlotte Watson, inspired by the subantarctic Auckland Islands.
• JSTOR Daily looks at the late 19th century hit novel Ramona, written by Helen Hunt Jackson to try to change American policy towards indigenous peoples.
• Language Hat looks at how, until recently, the Faroese language had taboos requiring certain words not to be used at sea.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at a proposal to partially privatize American national parks.
• The LRB Blog looks at what Nigel Farage will be doing next.
• Marginal Revolution looks at a speculative theory on the origins of American individualism in agrarian diversity.
• The NYR Daily looks at an exhibition of the artwork of John Ruskin.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw remarks on a connection between Arthur Ransome and his region of New England.
• Drew Rowsome shares an interview with folk musician Michelle Shocked.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel emphasizes the importance of the dark energy mystery.
• Towleroad notes a posthumous single release by George Michael.
• Daniel Little at Understanding Society celebrates the 12th anniversary of his blog, and looks back at its history.
• Window on Eurasia looks at Ingushetia after 1991.
• Arnold Zwicky looks at All Saints Day.

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at the German city of Nordlingen, formed in a crater created by the impact of a binary asteroid with Earth.
• Centauri Dreams reports on the possibility that the farside of the Moon might bear the imprint of an ancient collision with a dwarf planet the size of Ceres.
• D-Brief notes that dredging for the expansion of the port of Miami has caused terrible damage to corals there.
• Dangerous Minds looks at the last appearances of David Bowie and Iggy Pop together on stage.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes that China is on track to launch an ambitious robotic mission to Mars in 2020.
• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog talks about what sociological research actually is.
• Gizmodo reports on the discovery of a torus of cool gas circling Sagittarius A* at a distance of a hundredth of a light-year.
• io9 reports about Angola Janga, an independent graphic novel by Marcelo D’Salete showing how slaves from Africa in Brazil fought for their freedom and independence.
• The Island Review shares some poems of Matthew Landrum, inspired by the Faroe Islands.
• Joe. My. God. looks at how creationists are mocking flat-earthers for their lack of scientific knowledge.
• Language Hat looks at the observations of Mary Beard that full fluency in ancient Latin is rare even for experts, for reasons I think understandable.
• Melissa Byrnes wrote at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the meaning of 4 June 1989 in the political transitions of China and Poland.
• Marginal Revolution notes how the New York Times has become much more aware of cutting-edge social justice in recent years.
• The NYR Daily looks at how the memories and relics of the Sugar Land prison complex outside of Houston, Texas, are being preserved.
• Jason C Davis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at the differences between LightSail 1 and the soon-to-be-launched LightSail 2.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer looks in detail at the high electricity prices in Argentina.
• Peter Rukavina looks at the problems with electric vehicle promotion on PEI.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at when the universe will have its first black dwarf. (Not in a while.)
• Window on Eurasia suggests that Belarusians are not as interested in becoming citizens of Russia as an Internet poll suggests.
• Arnold Zwicky highlights a Pride Month cartoon set in Antarctica featuring the same-sex marriage of two penguins.

[ISL] Five #islands links: Newfoundland, Komodo, South China Sea, Kiribati, Faroe Islands

• This story about a genealogical mystery newly-found in the genetics of Newfoundland is fascinating. The National Post reports.
• The island of Komodo has been closed to tourists to save the Komodo dragons from poachers. VICE reports.
• China plans to build a city under its control among the islets of the South China Sea. Business Insider reports.
• The Inter Press Service notes the spread of leprosy in Kiribati.
• JSTOR Daily explains why, for one week, the Faroe Islands are closed to tourists to better enable cleaning and repairs.

[ISL] Five islands links: Kerguelens, Faroes, Hainan, Kuril Islands, Qatar

• The albatross of France’s sub-Antarctic Kerguelen Islands are facing pressure, alas. CNRS reports.
• The New Yorker takes a look at Koks, a Michelin-starred restaurant in the Faroes that takes rare advantage of local food.
• The Chinese island-province of Hainan might be trying to position itself as an international tourism destination, but restrictions on the Internet continue. Quartz reports.
• Is a bare majority of the Kuril Islands’ population is of Ukrainian background? Window on Eurasia suggests it may be so.
• The intensity of the desire of Saudi Arabia’s government to literally make Qatar an island through canal construction worries me, frankly. VOX reports.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the remarkably enduring supernova iPTF14hls, which seems to have attained its longevity through massive amounts of antimatter.
• blogTO notes plans for the construction of a new public square in Chinatown, on Huron Street.
• James Bow shares a short story of his, set in a future where everyone has a guaranteed minimum income but few have a job.
• A poster at Crasstalk shares a nostalgic story about long-lost summers as a child in Albuquerque in the 1960s.
• Bruce Dorminey reports on Universe, a beautiful book concerned with the history of astronomical imagery.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog explores the latent and manifest functions of education for job-seekers.
• Far Outliers’ Joel talks about the Red Terror imposed by Lenin in 1918, and its foreshadowing of the future of the Soviet Union.
• Language Hat links to a lovely analysis of a Tang Chinese poem, “On the Frontier.”
• Language Log notes how the name of Chinese food “congee” ultimately has origins in Dravidian languages.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes note of the suspicious timing of links between the Trump family and Wikileaks.
• Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen recounts his visit to an Amazon bookstore, and what he found lacking (or found good).
• The NYR Daily notes the continuing controversy over the bells of the church of Balangiga, in the Philippines, taken as booty in 1901 by American forces and not returned.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer wonders why Canadian incomes and productivity have historically been 20-30% lower than those of the United States, and why incomes have lately caught up.
• Roads and Kingdoms considers the simple pleasures of an egg and cracker snack in the Faroe Islands.
• Strange Company considers the bizarre 1910 murder of Massachusetts lawyer William Lowe Rice.
• The Volokh Conspiracy notes an Australian publisher that suspended publication of a book in Australia for fear of negative reaction from China.
• Arnold Zwicky shares some photos of his orchids, blooming early because of warm temperatures.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait notes that the most plausible explanation for Tabitha’s Star, KIC 8462852, exists in partial eclipses of the star by dust clouds.
• D-Brief notes that the giant stick insects of Lord Howe Island did survive in their forced diaspora.
• The Dragon’s Gaze takes a look at Kelt-9b, a planet so close to its star that it is literally melting away.
• Language Hat looks at a website set up by inhabitants of the Faroe Islands to translate Faroese.
• The LRB Blog shares some of the past appearances of Nobel-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro in the pages of the LRB.
• Neal Ascherson at the NYR Daily looks at the mechanism of the referendum, in Scotland and Catalonia and elsewhere.
• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the import of Mike Pence’s promise to send Americans to the Moon again.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at how the cosmic phenomenon of inflation explains the entire modern universe.
• Window on Eurasia suggests Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov is trying to establish himself as a Russian political figure.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Anthropology.net notes that schizophrenia is not an inheritance from the Neanderthals.
• D-Brief notes a recent study of nova V1213 Cen that drew on years of observation.
• Dangerous Minds shares a Simple Minds show from 1979.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog argues in favour of educating people about how they consume.
• Far Outliers notes the mid-12th century Puebloan diaspora and the arrival of the Navajo.
• Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen reports on the Faroe Islands.
• The Planetary Society Blog notes the impending launch of the OSIRIS-REx probe.
• Spacing Toronto examines through an interview the idea of artivism.
• Strange Maps notes the need to update the map of Louisiana.
• Torontoist introduces its new daily newsletters.
• Understanding Society examines liberalism’s relationship with hate-based extremism.
• Window on Eurasia notes that Russians are concerned about their country’s post-Ukraine isolation but not enough to do anything about it, and looks at the generation gap across the former Soviet space.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• blogTO describes how Parkdale’s Harry’s diner is going to be revamped.
• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly describes the joys of making friends through the blogosphere.
• Centauri Dreams looks at Kuiper Belt object Niku and its strange orbit.
• The Map Room Blog looks at the controversy over Google’s map of Palestine.
• Marginal Revolution notes how Faroese women leave their home islands at a disproportionately high rate.
• Peter Rukavina describes time spent with his son kayaking Charlottetown harbour.
• Strange Maps depicts the shift of the global economic centre of the world.
• Window on Eurasia describes the decay of provincial Karelia.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Antipope considers the question of who would win in a battle to the end, Cthulhu or Warhammer 40K’s Emperor of Mankind?
• blogTO shares history and photos of Humber Bay Shores and the Scarborough Bluffs.
• Joe. My. God. notes Donald Trump’s attack on the Japanese-American alliance.
• Language Hat reports on how speakers of the Aboriginal language of Murrinhpatha point out directions.
• Marginal Revolution starts a discussion on the Faroe Islands.
• George R.R. Martin announces that his Wild Cards universe is set to come to television.
• Window on Eurasia argues Americans are recognizing Putin’s regime as negative, looks at pro-Russian Ukrainian journalists, and observes how Russia’s invasion has not affected the identity of Ukraine’s Russophones.
• Arnolz Zwicky celebrates (1, 2) British actor Ianto Jones.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Beyond the Beyond’s Bruce Sterling reflects on the apparent absence of Kardashev Type III civilizations.
• Centauri Dreams looks at beamed power systems for spacecraft.
• The Dragon’s Gaze looks at the debris disks of Zeta Reticuli.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes NASA’s interest in researching deep space habitats.
• Far Outliers evaluates Romania’s Second World War-era dictator Antonescu.
• The LRB Blog responds to Beyoncé’s Lemonade.
• Out There interviews Mike Brown about the search for Planet Nine.
• Personal Reflections considers the impact of asylum controversies in Australia.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer still thinks Trump is dangerous.
• Towleroad notes the advent of LGBT equality in the Faroe Islands.
• The Volokh Conspiracy considers whether Prince’s estate could sue magazines for lying about him having AIDS.
• Window on Eurasia notes a Russian claim that the country’s newly-discovered Christianity prevents it from collaborating with the West.