[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bag News Notes discusses the famous Times Square kiss photo, placing it in the context of the general invisibility of sexual assault.


• Centauri Dreams discusses two proposed probes for Saturn's moon Titan, one a flier that takes advantage of the world's dense atmosphere the other a boat that would float on one of that world's hydrocarbon seas.


• Daniel Drezner is conflicted about Last Resort, a new NBC TV series featuring a nuclear submarine crew gone rogue that doesn't adequately consider the effect of nuclear weapons use.


• Far Outliers introduces readers to the Cossack pirates of the Black Sea.


• Joe. My. God shares the argument of writer and humourist Fran Lebowitz that gay marriage would have been unthinkable without the onslaught of HIV/AIDS.


• Language Hat shares the argument of one scholar who argues that the shift in the Russian name for the Russian language from Rossiiskii to Russkii in the early 19th century was a consequence of Russian imperialism in Poland.


• Supernova Condensate alerted me to the news that Voyager 1 may finally have left the Solar System.


• Without David Plummer's Torontoist post examining the subject, I would never have known that Fritz Lerner's musical Camelot--starring Richard Burton and Julie Andrews, no less!--had a remarkably fraught first staging in Toronto.


• Understanding Society takes a look at the economic histories of early modern India and China and finds that they seem not to have been substantially different from that of contemporary Europe.


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Stewart Baker highlights a report from the American Congress critical of Huawei (and ZTT) for sloppy security and intellectual-property practices.