[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Architectuul takes a look at different retrofuture imaginings from the 20th century of what architecture might look like in the 21st century.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the mysteries surrounding a sudden recent eruption of Sagittarius A*.


• Centauri Dreams considers what the James Webb Space Telescope might be able to pick up from TRAPPIST-1.


• Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber considers Ossian's Ride, a SF novel by Fred Hoyle imagining a progressive Ireland leapfrogging ahead of Britain, and how this scenario is being realized now.


• D-Brief looks at what a glitch in the spin rate of the Vela pulsar reveals about these bodies.


• Dangerous Minds looks at how Rock Hudson came to star in the SF film Seconds.


• Bruce Dorminey notes a new NASA Kepler study suggesting (very) broadly Earth-like worlds might orbit as many as one in six Sun-like stars.


• Gizmodo links to a study suggesting the oddly fuzzy core of Jupiter might be a consequences of an ancient collision with a massive protoplanet.


• Imageo notes that July broke all sorts of climate records.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the Trump administration has exempted Bibles from the new China tariffs.


• Language Hat considers, after the space of a decade, why people might say a language is so foreign as to be Greek.


• Robert Farley links at Lawyers, Guns and Money to an analysis of what major battle fleets around the world would have looked like in 1950 absent a Second World War.


• The LRB Blog notes how the UK Conservative government's turn towards repressive law-and-order measures will please Faragists.


• The Map Room Blog shares maps indicating the scale of the American opioid crisis.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution links to one of his columns noting how two decades of nil economic growth has harmed Italy.


• Peter Watts at his blog has a critical take on the Chinese SF movie The Wandering Earth.


• The NYR Daily looks at how things are becoming quite bad for Kashmiris.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at how the OSIRIS-REx team is looking for sample sites on asteroid Bennu.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the evidence from our solar system's moons that two planets can indeed stably share the same orbit.


• Towleroad notes how a successful campaign has helped London fetish bar Backstreet survive gentrification.


• Arnold Zwicky shares some gorgeous blue and black flowers in the Gamble Garden of Palo Alto, and meditations on said.