[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about breaking habits.
• Centauri Dreams notes the detection of geological features on Pluto, shares the flyby schedule, and examines Charon.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on a brown dwarf found to have a Venus-sized world in orbit.
• The Dragon's Tales notes the atmospheric polymers of Titan, argues that worlds like Titan and Europa and Enceladus with shells of ice covering water are their own class of worlds, and wonders if Enceladus has a fluffy core.
• Geocurrents compares Oman with adjacent Yemen, and looks at the Yemeni island of Socotra.
• Languages of the World shares an atlas of the Dutch provinces in porcelain.
• Marginal Revolution notes that bankers from Iceland and China seem to have been using shares as collateral, and argues aging in China is overrated.
• The Planetary Society Blog focuses on Pluto and Charon.
• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that Michoacán in Mexico fails to become a criminalized Sicily because the Mexican criminals were too violent.
• Progressive Download's John Farrell looks at the new papal encyclical on the environment.
• The Russian Demographics Blog notes the Russian baby bust.
• The Volokh Conspiracy notes that contrary the internet meme the Oregon bakers were not fined for doxxing the complainants.
• Window on Eurasia looks at Russian military desertion, the mistreatment of Ukrainians in Russian prisoners, and fears for the prospect of peaceful change in Russia.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the roles of whips in the British political scene.