[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• D-Brief shares rare video of beaked whales on the move.
• Dangerous Minds notes that someone has actually begun selling unauthorized action figures of Trump Administration figures like Bannon and Spencer.
• Language Log looks at a linguistic feature of Emma Watson's quote, her ending it with a preposition.
• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen considers, originally for Bloomberg View, if Trump could be seen as a placebo for what ails America.
• The New APPS Blog takes a Marxist angle on the issue of big data, from the perspective of (among other things) primitive accumulation.
• The Search reports on the phenomenon of the Women's History Month Wikipedia edit-a-thon, aiming to literally increase the representation of notable women on Wikipedia.
• Towleroad notes the six men who will be stars of a new Fire Island reality television show.
• The Volokh Conspiracy finds some merit in Ben Carson's description of American slaves as immigrants.
• Window on Eurasia argues that Belarusians are beginning to mobilize against their government and suggests they are already making headway.