[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly points writers to evidence that editing can be a harsh and thorough process: a photograph of one of her own drafts.


• Centauri Dreams notes that a recent study of the distribution of different sorts of asteroids in the asteroid belt suggests that the planets in the early solar system were exceptionally mobile, with Jupiter's inward migrations perhaps tossing enough icy bodies our way to give Earth oceans.
• Discover's The Crux points out alleged photographic evidence of an alien base on the Moon is no such thing.


• The Dragon's Tales links to Stephen Hawking's paper on black holes, which apparently argues they don't destroy information so much as garble it.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a recent study suggesting that the Alpha Centauri system is quite full of dust.


• The Financial Times' World blog notes that the dustup over Oxfam and Scarlett Johansson's involvement as spokesperson for an Israeli company making use of West Bank resources highlights Israel's growing issues.


• Joe. My. God. notes a recent Washington Post-ABC poll suggesting that Hillary Clinton is far and away the Democratic Party's favourite for the 2016 presidential election.


• Dave Brockington of Lawyers, Guns and Money takes issue with Niall Ferguson's argument that Britain should have stayed out of the First World War.


• Marginal Revolution notes a recent paper suggesting how Catalonia might progress to independence from Spain, in the context of shared debt.


• Thought Catalog's Shawn Binder writes about how homophobia can intrude even within same-sex relationships.


• Torontoist notes a major billion-dollar development at Spadina and Front that would literally create a new neighbourhood.


• Towleroad observes that billionaire Cecil Chao has withdrawn the dowry he offered to potential suitors of his lesbian and coupled daughter Gigi, without acknowledging her actual relationship.