[NEWS] Five Centauri Dreams links: Dyson slingshot, asteroid diversion, K-class stars, Bennu, myth

• Centauri Dreams considers the Dyson slingshot technique for spacecraft.


• Centauri Dreams reports on the problems of diverting asteroids that are substantially made of rubble.


• Centauri Dreams notes that K-class stars, like Epsilon Eridani, might well be especially suitable hosts for Earth-like worlds.


• Centauri Dreams reports on the changeable rotation rate of asteroid Bennu.

Centauri Dreams considers the sorts of mythologies that spacefaring civilizations might use.

[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: Audre Lorde on storms, RBG, pangolin, language, science fiction

• JSTOR Daily considers what Audre Lorde predicted about the future of weather disasters from her 1989 experience on St. Croix with Hurricane Hugo.


• JSTOR Daily considers the radicalism of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.


• JSTOR Daily notes the endangerment of the pangolin by environmental destruction and smuggling.


• JSTOR Daily considers some struggles facing linguistic prescriptivists.


• Alexandra Samuel writes at JSTOR Daily about the sorts of predictions that science fiction can make, not so much about specific technologies as possible futures.

[NEWS] Five LG&M links: Free Tibet, lynching, Beto, Ilham Omar, Bangladesh and globalization

• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the decline of the Free Tibet movement from a recent 1990s apogee.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the extent to which lynching in the United States is broadly dispersed throughout the country, is not only a method of African-American suppression.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes a look at Beto O'Rourke as a Democratic nominee for the American presidency.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes issue, rightfully, with the Islamophobic criticism of Ilham Omar by even her supposed allies.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the people who recently died in Bangladesh at one end of a global supply chain, and asks about our responsibility at the other end.

[URBAN NOTE] Five links on cities: urban growth, concrete, deafness, broken windows, vistas

• CBC reports on how, around the world, the construction of new cities is imagined as a kickstarter for economic growth. Is this correct?


• Guardian Cities points to suggestions as to how science fiction suggests futures for cities not involving concrete.


• CityLab considers how cities can be built for the benefit of deaf people, looking at recent work in Washington D.C.


• CityLab notes the problems of the broken windows theory that has girded much urban policing.


• Guardian Cities looks at how cities around the world try to preserve the integrity of their iconic views.

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: sober queer spaces, hockey, recovering history, Ed Koch, Pride

• Them writes about the importance of queer spaces like coffee shops where people can gather while being sober.


• Folio links to a fascinating study examining why professional hockey players have not come out, and what might make them do so.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the fascinating process of recovering black queer history through researching articles in sensationalist magazines.


• Hornet Stories describes the fascinating, disastrous history of closeted New York City mayor Ed Koch.


• A controversy over the headlining of Ariana Grande at 2019 Manchester Pride led to a debate to questions of queer representation on Pride stages. Global News reports.