Sep. 29th, 2019

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how TESS detected a star being torn apart by a distant black hole.

  • Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster looks at the past and future of the blog.

  • Crooked Timber takes on the sensitive issue of private schools in the United Kingdom.

  • The Crux considers the question of why women suffer from Alzheimer's at a higher frequency than men.

  • D-Brief notes a study suggesting that saving the oceans of the Earth could reduce the effects of global warming by 20%.

  • Bruce Dorminey considers a paper suggesting that, if not for its volcanic resurfacing, Venus could have remained an Earth-like world to this day.

  • The Dragon's Tale notes that NASA will deploy a cubesat in the proposed orbit of the Lunar Gateway station to make sure it is a workable orbit.

  • Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at Soyuz T-10a, the first crewed mission to abort on the launch pad.

  • Gizmodo reports on a paper arguing that we should intentionally contaminate Mars (and other bodies?) with our world's microbes.

  • io9 looks at how Warner Brothers is trying to control, belatedly, the discourse around the new Joker movie.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at how, in industrializing London, women kidnapped children off the streets.

  • Language Hat links to a page examining the Arabic and Islamic elements in Dune.

  • Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at a new documentary examining the life of Trump mentor Roy Cohn.

  • The LRB Blog looks at how BBC protocols are preventing full discussion of public racism.

  • The Map Room Blog looks at different efforts to reimagining the subway map of New York City.

  • Marginal Revolution shares a paper claiming that increased pressure on immigrants to assimilate in Italy had positive results.

  • The NYR Daily looks at the background to George Washington's statements about the rightful place of Jews in the United States.

  • Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog looks at the political explanation of the massive increase in the planetary defense budget of NASA.

  • Drew Rowsome takes a look at the Rocky Horror Show, with its celebration of sexuality (among other things).

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers why there are so many unexpected black holes in the universe.

  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps examines why Google Street View is not present in Germany (and Austria).

  • The Volokh Conspiracy reports on a ruling in a UK court that lying about a vasectomy negates a partner's consent to sex.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the controversy about some Buryat intellectuals about giving the different dialects of their language too much importance.

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