[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• James Bow calls for an end to the US-Canada Safe Third Country agreement prohibiting people coming from American soil from claiming refugee status in Canada.


• D-Brief reports on the vast array of man-made minerals appearing in what is now being called the Anthropocene Era of Earth.


• Dangerous Minds notes the efforts of the Disco Preservation Society to preserve DJ mixes from 1980s San Francisco.


• Language Log takes issue with Neil DeGrasse Tyson's argument that cryptographers, not linguists, would be needed in Arrival.


• The LRB Blog notes impunity for murderers of civil society activists in Honduras.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen talks about Joyce Gladwell's autobiography Brown Face, Big Master.


• The NYRB Daily celebrates the work of Hercules Segers.


• The Planetary Society Blog is skeptical of the Space X plan to send tourists past the Moon by 2018.


• Supernova Condensate lists 8 things we know about Proxima Centauri b.


• Towleroad reports on new walking tours being offered of gay London.


• Arnold Zwicky engages with a California exhibition comparing paintings with movies.