[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how data mining of stellar surveys led to the discovery of a new star type, the BLAP.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly tells about her enjoyable recent stay at Fire Island.


• Centauri Dreams notes the latest maneuvers of asteroid probe OSIRIS-REx.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper considering oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres as a biomarker.


• Joe. My. God. notes how racist Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio is upset at being called a racist.


• Language Log notes how China censored images of the Tibetan-language tattoo of MMA fighter Dan Hardy.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how deportees to Mexico are beset by that country's crime syndicates.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper considering how many sellers a market needs to be competitive.


• The New APPS Blog considers the racism of Donald Trump in the light of Agamben's concept of the homo sacer.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw considers the issue of monuments in Australia in the context of Aborigines' sufferings by the subjects memorialized.


• The Planetary Society Blog shows the Jupiter approach videos taken by the Voyager probes.


• Towleroad explains why Diana, with her embrace of (among other things) fashion and AIDS victims, is a gay icon.


• Arnold Zwicky notes the official registration in Scotland of a tartan for LGBT people.