[PHOTO] Red leaf with rotten edge

[PHOTO] Late yellow sunflower in the wind, Dupont Street

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Adam Fish at anthro{dendum} shares a new take on the atmosphere, as a common good.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a photo of Earth taken from a hundred million kilometres away by the OSIRIS-REx probe.


• The Crux tells the story of how the first exoplanets were found.


• D-Brief notes that life could be possible on a planet orbiting a supermassive black hole, assuming it could deal with the blueshifting.


• io9 looks at the latest bold move of Archie Comics.


• JSTOR Daily explores cleaning stations, where small fish clean larger ones.


• Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the role China seeks to play in a remade international order.


• The Map Room Blog looks at the new upcoming national atlas of Estonia.


• Marginal Revolution touches on the great ambition of Louis XIV for a global empire.


• Steve Baker of The Numerati shares photos from his recent trip to Spain.


• Anya Schiffrin at the NRY Daily explains how American journalist Varian Fry helped her family, and others, escape the Nazis.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the classic movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a map looking at the barriers put up by the high-income world to people moving from outside.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel answers the complex question of how, exactly, the density of a black hole can be measured.


• John Scalzi at Whatever reviews Gemini Man. Was the high frame rate worth it?


• Window on Eurasia notes the deep hostility of Tuvins towards a large Russian population in Tuva.


• Arnold Zwicky considers the existential question of self-aware cartoon characters.

[NEWS] Ten JSTOR Daily links: Beowulf, grain and beer, Sinclair, birds, TV, books ...

• JSTOR Daily considers race as a subject for discussion in Beowulf.


• JSTOR Daily suggests the possibility that grain was domesticated not to produce bread, but rather to produce beer.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how the wild rice of North America resisted efforts at domestication.


• JSTOR Daily notes the Outer Banks Brewing Station, a North Carolina brewery powered by wind energy.


• JSTOR Daily shares a classic essay by Upton Sinclair from 1906 on the issues of the American economy.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the history of the pet bird in the 19th century United States.


• JSTOR Daily considers the ways in which streaming television might not fragment markets and nations.


• JSTOR Daily reports on how Sylvia Beach, with help, opened legendary Paris bookstore Shakespeare & Co.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the surprisingly democratic origins of the Great Books of American literature.


• JSTOR Daily reports on how the horror movies of the 1970s and 1980s captured a new female audience by having more appealing girl and woman characters.