[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Anthrodendum considers the question of what, exactly, is the genre of ethnographic film.
• Centauri Dreams features authors’ calls for a debate on METI, on sending messages to extraterrestrial intelligences.
• The Crux reports on the continuing damage caused by the continuing eruptions of Indonesia’s mud volcano, Sidoarjo.
• Imageo shares a cute time-lapse video from Hubble showing the motion of Phobos around Mars.
• Language Hat responds to a newly-translated mid-19th century Russian novella, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya‘s 1861 novella Пансионерка (The Boarding School Girl).
• Lawyers, Guns and Money has a depressing extended examination of Trump as reflecting structural crisis in the United States.
• The LRB Blog looks at the genesis and continuing success of Nicaraguan Sign Language.
• The Map Room Blog shares a satirical map of Washington D.C., defined by the names that its metro stations should have.
• Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang lists the various worlds in our Solar System possibly hosting life, and notes how you could get an Earth-like world with wildly erratic seasons as in Game of Thrones.
• Unicorn Booty notes that the German president has signed marriage equality into law. (Also, the country has good LGBT protections.)
• Window on Eurasia notes that Putin is fine with an asymmetrical bilingualism in Russia’s republics, aimed against non-Russian languages.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• The anthropology group blog Savage Minds now has a new name, Anthrodendum.
• Anthropology.net reports on the first major study of ancient African human DNA. New history is revealed.
• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on how gravitational lensing led to the identification of a single star nine billion light-years away. (This is a record.)
• Centauri Dreams reports the possible detection of a debris disk around pulsar Geminga, augury of future planets perhaps?
• Dangerous Minds reports on Seoul’s Haesindang Park, a park literally full of penises–phallic symbols, at least.
• The Dragon’s Gaze notes one analysis arguing for the plausibility of unmanned probes using imaginable technology reaching the ten nearest stars in a century.
• Imageo shares photos from space of the southern California wildfires.
• Language Hat shares some stirring poetry in Scots.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the scale of child labour in North Carolina’s farm sector.
• Marginal Revolution thinks that American observers of Putin think, far too much, that he actually has a plan. The degree of chaos in Russia’s affairs is apparently being underestimated.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw notes the unsettling rural Americana of photographer Gregory Crewdson.
• Window on Eurasia notes Zhirinovsky’s plan for a sweeping Russian annexation of Ukraine, leaving only the northwest independent.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Anthropology.net notes on how a fossil tooth led eventually to the identification of the fourth Denisovan individual known.
• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly writes about reasons for people to travel solo.
• The Dragon’s Tales’ Will Baird notes that the INF Treaty is on the verge of collapse.
• Mathew Ingram uses a recent GIF of Trump with the Polish president’s wife to show how these lie and mislead.
• Joe. My. God. notes a sharp collapse in London’s LGBT venues–more than half in the past decade!
• Marginal Revolution reports on British actors who take up tutoring as a second job to support their careers.
• The NYR Daily takes a look at the latest concerns of South Koreans regarding their northern neighbour.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw takes issue with proposed Australian government surveillance of the local Internet.
• Progressive Download’s John Farrell dissects the origins of the false claim that Copernicus was a Catholic priest.
• Unicorn Booty has a fantastic interview with a scholar, Jamie Bernthal, who makes a case for queer content in Agatha Christie.
• Window on Eurasia notes that methane bubble explosions in Siberia could wreck Russian pipelines.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait investigates a mysterious streak on a photo of Messier 77. Asteroid, satellite, something else?
• Centauri Dreams reports on the latest attempt at a census estimate of brown dwarfs in the Milky Way Galaxy.
• Crooked Timber’s John Quiggin considers the diminishing role of the pundit, displaced by the expert.
• D-Brief is one of many sources to note the deadly, ubiquitous perchlorates of Mars. Mars is dead for good reasons.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money links to a tweetstorm by one Kate Antonova arguing that the ideological labels of the long 19th century no longer speak to our issues.
• Language Hat notes how early Tsarist mappers were confused by confusing, often shared, placenames.
• The LRB Blog reports on the recovery of a Bloomsbury Wedgwood service features the images of notable women.
• Marginal Revolution shares opinions that Macron is overrated, not least in terms of the distinctiveness of some of his policies from those of Trump.
• Window on Eurasia argues that projected shrinkage of the workforce of Russia means either economic decline or controversial immigration.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• io9 notes that Livejournal’s mascot Frank the Goat has made one last appearance, thanks to his creator.
• James Bow announces that, after a month of writing and family, he’s back to his blog.
• Joe. My. God. notes that the far-right AfD in Germany is trying to stop marriage equality.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money rightly does not understand what people mean by talking of a Trump administration “failing”. It can still wreak terrible damage.
• The Map Room Blog shares a lovely map of the Arctic circumpolar region of the Earth.
• Marginal Revolution notes that tourism has become the dominant growth sector of the Greek economy.
• Savage Minds shares Taylor R. Genovese essay invoking and exploring the magic and ritual of human spaceflight. (More to come.)
• Understanding Society considers and approves of the idea of a guaranteed minimum income, necessary supplement in a time of scarce good jobs.
• Unicorn Booty notes the many ways in which Trumpcare will leave queer LGBTQ people worse off.
• The Volokh Conspiracy’s Dale Carpenter again engages, after Texas’ ruling, with the idea of equality for all married couples.
• Window on Eurasia notes that only a small fraction of Russia’s planned spending on the Arctic has actually materialized.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Language Log argues that, despite a lack of official or public support, Cantonese remains the dominant language of Hong Kong.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the case for the global relevance of the Cranberries’ song “Zombie.”
• Marginal Revolution seems to like the end results of Canada’s immigration system.
• The NYR Daily notes that, even after ISIS, Iraq will be beset by multiple ethnoreligious crises.
• Out There’s Corey S. Powell interviews an astronomer about the very strange Przybylski’s Star, rich in rare radioactive elements.
• Savage Minds considers the decolonization of anthropology in the context of Iraq.
• Arnold Zwicky considers the surprisingly deep historical resonance of the loon in Canada.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly photoblogs about her trip to Berlin.
• Dead Things reports on a recent study that unraveled the evolutionary history of the domestic cat.
• James Nicoll notes that his niece and nephew will each be performing theatre in Toronto.
• Language Hat has an interesting link to interviews of coders as if they were translators.
• Marginal Revolution looks at Chinese video game competitions and Chinese tours to Soviet revolutionary sites.
• Steve Munro shares photos of the old Kitchener trolleybus.
• Roads and Kingdoms shares the story of the Ramadan drummer of Coney Island.
• Savage Minds shares an essay arguing that photographed subjects should provide they consent and receive renumeration.
• Torontoist shares photos of the Trans March.
• Towleroad notes the cancellation of anti-gay convictions of Nazis.
• Van Waffle shows the stories of the caterpillars in his backyard.
• The Volokh Conspiracy hosts an essay talking about the difficulties of translating the Book of Genesis.