[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Centauri Dreams links to archival video painstakingly collected from the Voyager missions.
• Citizen Science Salon notes ways ordinary people can use satellite imagery for archaeological purposes.
• Good news: Asian carp can’t find a fin-hold in Lake Michigan. Bad news: The lake is so food-deprived nothing lives there. The Crux reports.
• D-Brief notes that, once every second, a fast radio burst occurs somewhere in the universe.
• Dangerous Minds looks at the psychedelic retro-futurism of Swedish artist Kilian Eng.
• Dead Things notes the recovery of ancient human DNA from some African sites, and what this could mean for study.
• Cody Delistraty reconsiders the idea of the “coming of age” narrative. Does this make sense now that we have abandoned the idea of a unitary self?
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper examining the evolution of icy bodies around different post-main sequence stars.
• The Great Grey Bridge’s Philip Turner notes anti-Putin dissident Alexei Navalny.
• Hornet Stories notes reports of anti-gay persecution in Azerbaijan.
• Language Log takes a look at the dialectal variations of southern Ohio.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money starts a discussion about what effective disaster relief for Puerto Rico would look like.
• The LRB Blog looks at the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Mexico, and the story of the buried girl who was not there.
• Marginal Revolution notes that Toronto real estate companies, in light of rent control, are switching rental units over to condos.
• Naked Anthropologist Laura Agustín takes a look at the origins and stories of migrant sex workers.
• The NYR Daily talks about the supposedly unthinkable idea of nuclear war in the age of Trump.
• Drew Rowsome gives a strongly positive–and deserved review to the Minmar Gaslight show The Seat Next to the King, a Fringe triumph now playing at the Theatre Centre.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains how so many outer-system icy worlds have liquid water.
• Towleroad features Jim Parsons’ exploration of how important is for him, as a gay man, to be married.
• Window on Eurasia suggests Russian language policy limiting minority languages in education could backfire, and wonders if Islamization one way people in an urbanizing North Caucasus are trying to remain connected to community.

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[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Anthrodendum considers what, exactly, anthropology majors can do job-wise with their degrees. Interesting ideas.
• Centauri Dreams considers the possible origins of cometary organics in deep space.
• Hornet Stories talks of anti-immigrant Americans with immigrant ancestors who skirted relevant laws themselves, like Donald Trump.
• Language Hat considers byssus, an exotic ancient textile and a word with a complex history.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at how the potential for disaster in Florida is worsened by poor planning.
• The LRB Blog looks at the sad intersection of war, xenophobia, and rising rates of polio in Pakistan (and elsewhere).
• The Map Room Blog notes an interactive map-related play still showing at the Halifax Fringe, Cartography.
• The NYR Daily notes a high-profile corruption trial of a former government minister in Moscow.
• The Planetary Society Blog shares Paul Schenk’s story about how he interned at JPL in 1979 for the Voyager 2 flyby.
• Roads and Kingdoms looks at the search by a Brazilian man for caves in the south of that country.
• The Volokh Conspiracy asks some interesting questions about the mechanics of Settlers of Catan.
• At Whatever, John Scalzi remembers Jerry Pournelle.
• Window on Eurasia notes how Russia is strongly opposed to any Circassian return to their ancestral homeland.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Centauri Dreams notes one source suggesting red dwarf stars may produce too little ultraviolet to spark life on their planets.
• Hornet Stories notes how LGBTQ Dreamers will be hit badly by the repeal of DACA.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money approves of Frederick Crews’ critical takedown of Freud as a scientist.
• The LRB Blog looks at a new South Korean film examining the Gwangju massacre of 1980.
• The NYR Daily notes that China seems set to head into a new era of strict censorship, with calamitous results.
• The Planetary Society Blog considers the 40th anniversary of the Voyagers in the light of the Pale Blue Dot of Carl Sagan.
• The Signal reports that, for archivists’ purposes, online newspaper sites are actually very poorly organized.
• At Spacing, Adam Bunch notes how Upper Canadian governor John Simcoe’s abolition of slavery was not quite that.
• Window on Eurasia notes the continued official contortions around Circassian history in Russia.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly re-introduces herself to her readers.
• Bruce Dorminey shares one man’s theory about how extraterrestrials could use exoplanet sightings to build up a galactic communications network.
• Far Outliers shares some unusual Japanese words, starting with “amepotu” for American potato.
• Language Hat takes</a. note of an effort to preserve the Kiowa language.
• Did the spokeswoman of the NRA threaten to “fisk” the New York Times or threaten something else? Language Log reports.
• Drew Rowsome notes that, compared to San Francisco, Toronto does not have much of a public kink scene.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel examines the quantum reasons behind the explosion produced by sodium metal and water.
• Understanding Society takes rightful issue with The Guardian’s shoddy coverage of Dearborn, Michigan, and that city’s Muslims and/or Arabs.
• Unicorn Booty notes that Canada is, at last, starting to take in queer refugees from Chechnya.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the embarrassing support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon for Venezuela. Was opposing the US all he wanted?

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Centauri Dreams looks at two brown dwarf pairs, nearby Luhman 16 and eclipsing binary WD1202-024.
• D-Brief notes a study suggesting panspermia would be easy in the compact TRAPPIST-1 system.
• Far Outliers notes the shouted and remarkably long-range vocal telegraph of early 20th century Albania.
• Language Hat links to a fascinating blog post noting the survival of African Latin in late medieval Tunisia.
• The LRB Blog notes the observations of an Englishman in Northern Ireland that, after the DUP’s rise, locals are glad other Britons are paying attention.
• Marginal Revolution notes a study suggesting that refugees in the US end up paying more in taxes than they receive in benefits.
• Spacing reviews a fascinating-sounding new book on the politics and architecture of new libraries.
• Understanding Society examines the mechanisms through which organizations can learn.
• Window on Eurasia talks about the progressive detachment of the east of the North Caucasus, at least, from wider Russia.

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• The Big Picture shares photos of the South Sudanese refugee exodus into Uganda.
• blogTO shares an ad for a condo rental on Dovercourt Road near me, only $1800 a month.
• Centauri Dreams reports on the idea of using waste heat to detect extraterrestrial civilizations.
• Crooked Timber uses the paradigm of Jane Jacobs’ challenge to expert in the context of Brexit.
• The LRB Blog reports on the fishers of Senegal and their involvement in that country’s history of emigration.
• The Planetary Society Blog shares an image comparing Saturn’s smaller moons.
• The Volokh Conspiracy comes out in support of taking down Confederate monuments.
• Window on Eurasia suggests Chechens are coming out ahead of Daghestanis in the North Caucasus’ religious hierarchies, and argues that Putin cannot risk letting Ukraine become a model for Russia.
• Arnold Zwicky looks at various bowdlerizations of Philip Larkin’s famous quote about what parents do to their children.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Language Hat reports on the Wenzhounese of Italy.
• Language Log writes about the tones of Cantonese.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money writes about the costs of law school. (They are significant, and escalating hugely.)
• Marginal Revolution reports on the problems facing the Brazilian pension system, perhaps overgenerous for a relatively poor country facing rapid aging.
• Neuroskeptic reports on the latest re: the crisis of scientists not being able to replicate evidence, now even their own work being problematic.
• Personal Reflections considers the questions of how to preserve the dignity of people facing Alzheimer’s.
• The Russian Demographics Blog notes a Financial Times article looking at the impact of aging on global real estate.
• Spacing Toronto talks about the campaign to name a school after Jean Earle Geeson, a teacher and activist who helped save Fort York.
• At Wave Without A Shore, C.J. Cherryh shares photos of her goldfish.
• Window on Eurasia notes growing instability in Daghestan, looks at the latest in Georgian historical memory, and shares an article arguing that Putin’s actions have worsened Russia’s reputation catastrophically.