[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Caitlin Kelly notes how the story of Kim Wall shows the danger that journalists can face.


• Centauri Dreams notes how the storm patterns of brown dwarfs different from those of stars and gas giants both.


• D-Brief reveals how the Confederate submarine Hunley met its sad fate.


• Language Hat reports on BBC's introduction of a new Pidgin-language service.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money considers some of the many ways in which the 2016 election could have gone differently.


• The LRB Blog looks at the subversive power of Steinbeck's Of Mine and Men, dropped from the British curriculum.


• Marginal Revolution notes a book, The Dawn of Eurasia, that claims great things are afoot for this wider region.


• The NYR Daily looks at the life and the music of Alice Coltrane.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer <>u>looks at the ways Mexico City's subway system does not connect it to its airport well.


• Peter Rukavina reflects on the United Church of Canada's rejection of the Discovery Doctrine re: First Nations.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on an exciting report that LIGO may have detected the collision of two neutron stars.


• Unicorn Booty notes the remarkable pre-AIDS Fire Island polaroid photos of Tom Bianchi.


• Window on Eurasia notes one Russian's proposal to avoid overcentralization in Moscow by moving the capital to Asia.